Language and behaviour

A.R. Luria, the great Soviet psychologist, died recently. Lurra and other members of the Moscow school of psychology developed a theory about the relationship between speech and behaviour which has been remarkably influential. Not everyone agrees with the Moscow school, of course, but Reg Marsh, a Professor of Education at Victoria University, is one of those who thinks that their ideas  offer helpful explanations not usually provided by other perhaps more conventional treatments of the relationship between speech and behaviour.