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Realizing the ZPD in Second Language Education
Language and Sociocultural Theory, 2019Vygotsky’s (1978, 1987) notion of the Zone of Proximal Development (ZPD) brings into focus the dialectical nature of interactional processes that provoke second language (L2) learner development. Two areas of L2 sociocultural theory (SCT-L2) scholarship that draw upon the ZPD as a framework for organizing instructional interactions are Dynamic ...
Paolo Infante, Matthew Poehner
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Effects of AI Scaffolding on ZPD in MOOC Instructional RPGs
2020This study conducts development, application, and testing of artificial intelligence (AI) tools to both monitor learner ZPD and choose appropriate scaffolding for students in a large class, while students learn- by-doing through a Role Playing Game (RPG). Machine learning algorithms are developed and integrated into the cloud-based activity at both the
Clyde A. Warden, Judy F. Chen
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Understanding the revolutionary character of L2 development in the ZPD
Language and Sociocultural Theory, 2017The Zone of Proximal Development has been one of the most misunderstood features of Sociocultural Theory. It has been inappropriately equated with Krashen’s i+1 and with the concept of ‘scaffolding’. Based on an empirical study where learners seemed to require the same degree of explicit mediation at two different points in time, Erlam, et al.
James P. Lantolf +2 more
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ZPD-activated languaging and collaborative L2 writing
Educational Psychology, 2013Recent second/foreign language (L2) research has witnessed the application of sociocultural tenets to L2 classrooms. This study aimed to probe whether Iranian L2 learners’ engagement in ZPD-activated collaborative dialogue, or ‘languaging’, mediates their learning process and, specifically, their appropriate use of metadiscourse to address content ...
Azizullah Mirzaei, Zohreh R. Eslami
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VYGOTSKY AND THE ZPD: HAVE WE GOT IT RIGHT?
Research in Mathematics Education, 2003There is a disparity between the historical Vygotsky and the diversity of ‘our Vygotsky’. This disparity is complex because it not only involves the interpretation of text but also mistranslation, construction of meaning and the legitimisation of current trends. This article attempts to throw light on the historical Vygotsky by unpacking this disparity
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Activating the ZPD: Mutual Scaffolding in L2 Peer Revision
The Modern Language Journal, 2000Vygotsky’s concept of zone of proximal development and its related scaffolding metaphor serve as the theoretical basis for the study of peer collaboration in the English as a Second Language (ESL) writing classroom. The purpose of the study was to observe the mechanisms by which strategies of revision take shape and develop in the interpsychological ...
María C. M. De Guerrero +1 more
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L2 Discourse Co-construction within the Learner’s ZPD
2010This study examined the effect of the ZPD-based discourse scaffolding on EFL learners' co-construction of L2 metadiscourse performing collaborative writing tasks and explored the discourse scaffolding dynamics. The participants were 160 EFL students that were assigned to four different treatment conditions: (i) formal teaching, (ii) input enhancement, (
Mirzaee, Azizallah +1 more
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SLA, i + 1, SCT, the ZPD, and other things
Journal of Applied Linguistics and Professional Practice, 2015.
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