Professional Documents
Culture Documents
Zone of
Proximal
Development
Zone of Proximal Development (ZPD)
ZPD
ZPD
actual
knowledge actual
Example :
An example of scaffolding in the classroom setting could
include a teacher first instructing her children on how to write
a sentence using commas and conjunctions. As the week
goes on, she has her students practice writing these
sentences with peers, gives students feedback and eventually
has the kids to complete this skill without her guidance.
Piaget Vygotsky
Both agree children are active learners who actively construct knowledge
Thinking develops in recognizable Development of thinking is
stages which depend on natural dependent upon language and
maturation culture
This theory was very influential in This theory is still very influential in
education but has need revising education
and underestimation of children’s
abilities still a problem
A clear application of sociocultural theory principles in second
language classroom is obvious in the task-based approach.
This approach emphasises the importance of social and
collaborative aspects of learning. sociocultural theory focuses
on how the learner accomplishes a task and how the
interaction between learners can scaffold and assist in the
second language acquisition process (Turuk, 2008).