Piaget's Theory Analysis

The most relevant stage for us to carry out this investigation, is the preoperational stage because is where children master their verbal skills. This crucial stage ranges from ages two to seven and it is where children develop their thinking abilities in order to do so in a logical and an operational way. These mental processes enable children to little by little analyze and describe what they perceived with their five senses and recall previously acquired vocabulary. The latter one, is made possible thanks to the symbolic function, that is when kids store on their brain mental pictures in order to use them at a later time. They also start to understand that every person, animal or thing is represented by a word. Finally, driven by their

Furthemore, Vygotsky declares that knowledge is constructed by social interactions with people who surround the child. The author also presents the concept of “zone of proximal development” as the distance between what children do without any supervision and what they are not able to achieve unless a more knowledgeable person guides them through it. In other words, the zone of proximal development refers to activities children cannot do, though they manage to fulfill with certain level of difficulty by following their better skilled fellows' suitable guidance. In the educational field, and for this specific study, teachers play an essential role in their learners’ developmental process. They serve as models and provide learners with a vast range of learning opportunities that enable them to reach their next level of development and become more autonomous each

(2007) along with the WHO, confirm how crucial it is for a country to invest on its citizen's early childhood development. They allude some research findings that highlight the fact that the majority of adult problems in society such as mental health, growth disorders, obesity, heart disease, criminality and illiteracy are due to improper early childhood care. Likewise, they mention how governments could transform their own countries even more when adopting additional legislations to the ones set out by the “United Nations Convention on the Rights of a Child” in benefit of early childhood. That is providing equal opportunities; in case of bilingualism in the Colombian context, it’s a fact that the only way a child can access English as a second language in a daycare, is if his/her parents can afford private