From vygotsky's perspective, what important role does inner speech play? by giving themselves directions about what to do next, children guide themselves through complex tasks. by using words mentally as well as orally, children develop more abstract representations of the world. by practicing various grammatical structures mentally, children acquire more complex language capabilities. by talking to themselves about what they should have done or said in a particular situation, children remember the situation more vividly.

The answer is "By giving themselves directions about what to do next, children guide themselves through complex tasks."

Inner speech, otherwise called covert speech or verbal thinking, has been embroiled in theories of intellectual advancement, discourse observing, executive function, and psychopathology.  

In Vygotsky's theory of cognitive development, inner speech is the result of a developmental  procedure. Vygotsky accepted that seeing how such a marvel rises over the life expectancy is fundamental for full cognizance of its abstract characteristics and utilitarian attributes. By means of a system of disguise, phonetically intervened social trades, (for example, those between the youngster and a parental figure) are changed, in Vygotsky's model, into a disguised "conversation" with the self.

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