Child Development and Pedagogy · Cognitive Development
In a language class of adolescent students, the teacher uses the English idiom 'A leopard cannot change its spots', which means 'a person cannot change their basic nature'. The teacher reasons that:
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- 1Students cannot understand it because adolescence is a stage where only concrete thinking dominates.
- 2Students may imagine the impossible as they have developed abstract thinking so they can understand it.
- 3Students can understand it as they are capable of using symbolic and abstract thinking to derive its meaning.✓
- 4Students cannot understand it as their critical thinking proves that in reality the idiom and its meaning do not synchronize.
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Students can understand it as they are capable of using symbolic and abstract thinking to derive its meaning.
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