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1. Social cultural theory

2. Social identity imagen relacionada
3. Intercultural communicative competence

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1. Social cultural theory

- It is an approach to learning and metal development.

- It refers to the social and cultural circumstances in which individual conduct the
business of living.
- It has origins in the writing of Vygotsky who was profoundly influenced, as
wertsch(1985, p.1999) seuggested, by three essential principles of Marxist theory.

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1. Social cultural theory

-SCT states than human mental development is fundamentally a mediated process that is
organized by cultural artifacts. They allow us to regulate and monitor our behavior.

- Developmental processes take place through participation in cultural and institutional contexts
(family, school, work, etc).

-the most important forms of human cognitive activities are developed through interaction within
social and material environment.

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-Higher-order mental functions, including voluntary memory, logical thought, learning and
attention, are organized and amplified through participation in culturally organized activity.

-The value of the theory resides not just in the analytical lens it provides for the understanding of
psychological development, but in its capacity to directly impact that development.

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PRIMARY CONSTRUCT OF SCT

Meditation and regulation

Internalization

Zone of proximal development

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PRIMARY CONSTRUCTS OF SCT

It is the central construct of the theory, it unifies all the varieties, it is rooted in the observation
that cognitive and material activities are mediated by symbolic artifacts (languages, literacy,
numeracy, concepts and forms of logic and rationality) as well as by material artifacts and
technology.

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INTERNALIZATION

Is the process through which cultural artifacts, including language, take on psychological function,
and, the processes through which interpersonal and person -environment interaction form and
transform one´s internal mental functions, and the role of imitation in learning and development.
It also describes developmental process whereby humans gain the capacity to perform complex
cognitive and physical-motor functions with progressively decreasing reliance on external
mediation and increasing reliance on internal mediation.

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PRIMARY CONSTRUCT OF SCT

Zone of proximal development

-It is a conceptual and pedagogical toll that educators can use to better understand aspects of
students emerging capacities that are in early stages of formation.

-it also refers to the difference between the level of development already obtained and the
cognitive functions comprising the proximal next stage of development that may be visible
through participation in collaborative activity.

-summing up, the ZPD-oriented assessment provides a nuanced determination of both

developments achieved and developmental potential.

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Social identity

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Social identity

-Researches such as hall (2002) and ochs (1996) stated that social identities refer to the belonging
and interaction in several social institutions and communities (e.g related to their gender, race,
family, religion, school, profession, and workplace).

-the identity development of an individual is affected by the acquisition and use of language.

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Social identity
- As J. K. Hall (2002) remarks, “[…] identity is not seen as singular and unitary, but rather
as socially constituted, a reflexive product of the social, historical and political,
contexts of an individual´s lived experiences” (p. 32).
- Social identity relates to how we identify ourselves in relation to others according to
what we have in common. For example, we can identify ourselves according to
religion or where we´re from, political affiliation, vocation or relationship (mother,
father, great-aunt).

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Social identity
-In addition, some identities are stigmatized (person with AIDS, homeless person,
alcoholic) and many social identities can be multiple (an Asian American Democrat
who works as writer). Together, the different roles a person plays can help him/her
realize his/her overall identity.
- to sum up, there is a strong inference and connection between language and
language use, culture and identity development.

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Intercultural communicative competence

Linguistic competence Sociolinguistic competence discourse

competence
Intercultural competence

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Intercultural communicative competence
- The communicative competence refers to the description of the knowledge and skills
required for interaction and the appropriate use of language in a social context.
- The intercultural communicative competence refers to as having ability to engage
effectively in communication with interlocutors from the target language culture as
well as to stablish and maintain interactional relationships with them.

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Intrcultural commnunicative competence
-this competence is the resultant ability of the foreign language learner to engage in
intercultural interactions.
-an intercultural speaker is not an imitator of the native speaker, but is a social actor in
his own right, interacting with others social actors.
-this competence refers to the advantage of making the most out of 2 or more
different culture, with the power to critically asseses the languages culture by seeing
the similarities and differences, comprehending how the cultures relate to each other.

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 Intercultural communicative competence

The competence allows the speaker :

1. To act as an interpreter, intermediary, a catalyst. (p. 234 ). Byram (2008).

2. To improve the relationships between societies and nations.
3. To obtain more critical understanding of his/her own identity and culture.

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Conclusions

- We can state that there is a strong relationship between learning a language and the
cuture this one is attached to. The inference of the last one in the first one makes a
huge difference in the development of the individual.
- To master a language, it is not only necessary to know all the grammar and handle the
discourse competence. But, intertwine it with the culture. Speakers that engage with
culture they result in game changer people.
- The social and intercultural interactions are created when using the language allow
people to become global citizens by developing intercultural intercommunicative
competence. Which makes them critical thinkers with the power to understand their
own and other cultures identities.