Types of Regulation
When people have yet to learn how to control their world and themselves or engage with other people in the context of carrying out a given activity, they engage in this sort of regulation.
Object Regulation
This is abbreviated but audible speech mostly directed to the self. It emerges most often in the face of some challenge, when people are attempting to self-regulate.
Private Speech
People can also orient during an event towards other people and thus they can be this.
Other Regulation
This sort of speech consults a friend or other person in language acquisition.
Social Speech
At this highest level of regulation, people orient to their own mental activity.
Self Regulation
Talking to oneself is this kind of speech.
Inner speech
The student does not know how to use a certain idiomatic expression, so he consults a grammar book. The grammar book only treats formal language, so the student consults a native speaker. Finally, the student masters the idiomatic expression, and, before using it correctly, briefly thinks to himself. What kind of regulation is being employed?
Object, other, self.
The chef who does not need to consult the self or others during the preparation of a dish might do most of her thinking in this form of speech.
Inner Speech