TOWARDS A COMPREHENSIVE APPROACH TO EARLY LANGUAGE LEARNING AS A COGNITIVE PROCESS

The objective of this study is based on the development of a model aimed to explain the early language learning process, integrating substantial factors belonging to two lines of cognitive models about the acquisition of reading: cognitive and interactionist. The models of both lines are described and the concepts interrelate -considered relevant to contemporary educational psychology studies of an empirical line- in the framework of the contextual perspective of Bronfenbrenner to arrive at a comprehensive integration of the factors which significantly influence early language learning.