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Scientific concepts as meaning-making resources for young EFL learners in the learning of pragmatics
Intercultural Communication Education, 2021 This article reports on a study investigating the role of scientific concepts in the metapragmatic awareness of Norwegian primary EFL learners’ following a four-week instructional intervention on requesting informed by sociocultural theory (Vygotsky ...
Anders Myrset
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Sociocultural theory and blind taste-tests
Reading & Writing, 2010 In his entertaining 1986 book, The Real Coke, the Real Story, Thomas Oliver tells the story of the now infamous “New Coke”, a story retold in Malcolm Gladwell’s (2005) best-seller Blink. In the early 1980s, Pepsi began running commercials in which people
James Paul Gee
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Mediation and EFL Learners’ Willingness to Communicate: A Micro Sociocultural Study [PDF]
Applied Research on English Language, 2020 Exploring various dimensions associated with classroom Willingness to Communicate (WTC) appears to have become a focal issue among researchers. Despite previous studies on WTC, there still exists the paucity of research reflecting actual learners’ WTC ...
Behrouz Jamalvandi +3 more
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Using Situated Learning to Examine the Language of Teaching and Learning
Studies in Applied Linguistics & TESOL, 2008 Since Firth and Wagner’s (1997) call for a reconceptualization of the field of second language acquisition (SLA), much discussion has centered on the pairing of discourse analysis and sociocultural theory as an approach to SLA research.
Christine M. Jacknick
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Measurement and incorporation of ZPD scenarios in developing writing accuracy in EFL classes
Cogent Education, 2021 Despite growing interest in the studies on Zone of Proximal Development (ZPD), its operation in the forms of individualized and group-wide has been controversial.
Samaneh Nazerian +2 more
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Criticism of the Sociocultural Theory [PDF]
Budapest International Research and Critics Institute (BIRCI-Journal): Humanities and Social Sciences, 2020 Sociocultural theory is an emerging theory in psychology that looks at the important contributions that society makes to individual development. This theory stresses the interaction between developing people and the culture in which they live. Sociocultural theory also suggests that human learning is largely a social process.
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Sociocultural Theory and Computer-Mediated Communication-based Language Learning
Studies in Applied Linguistics & TESOL, 2008 Computer-Mediated Communication (CMC) refers to “communication that takes place between human beings via [networked] computers” (Herring, 1996), which includes both synchronous modes (e.g., real-time chat and video-conferencing) and asynchronous modes (e.
Heesook Cheon
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Sociocultural Identity in TEFL Textbooks: A Systemic Functional Analysis [PDF]
Applied Research on English Language, 2018 This study aimed at investigating shades of identity in TEFL textbooks. Most identity studies have focused on authors as knowledge producers. They have neglected authors' roles in constructing identity.
Nasser Rashidi, fatemeh zolfaghari
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Tecnoscienza, 2020 Early progressive and sociocultural theories in education share unexpected similarities with recent research concerned with the sociomateriality of learning settings.
Michael Schlauch
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FORMakademisk, 2011 In this article, I explore how part of the culture historian professor Ernst Gombrich’s vocabulary can be used in two examples of today’s drawing processes among children (age 9–12).
Nina Scott Frisch
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