Examining the Relationship between Kohlberg's Theory of Moral Development and Language Learning among Iranian Elementary Students
Seyed Ahmad Hashemi
Department of Education, Lamerd Branch, Islamic Azad University, Lamerd, Iran
Zahra Monfared
The Ma student in Instructional Research, Lamerd Branch, Islamic Azad University, Lamerd, Iran
Abstract: Moral development has been considered the most important social issue over the centuries. Great theorist of the early twentieth century took into account ethics as a means of social development. Kohlberg as Piaget believes that his stages unfold in an invariant sequence. Children always go from stage 1 to stage 2 to stage 3 and so forth. They do not skip stages or move through them in mixed-up orders. Holiday believes that language has three roles, which include learning system and establishing a relationship between language and learning. In addition, he believes that children select several linguistic data. In other words, the children select those categories of communicative aspects of language they may understand at each stage of learning. It seems that there is a strong relationship between elements of language learning and four stages (two levels) of Kohlberg’s theory of moral development.
Keywords: Kohlberg’s theory of moral development, language learning, Persian, elements of language learning
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