Wednesday, February 22, 2012

SOCIOCULTURAL THEORY

We were interested in talking about this theory because its insights have a pedagogical and psychological relationship with some of the other hypotheses (Output and Interaction hypotheses). We can conclude this, due to the importance offered to Vygotskian thoughts. From this author’s point of view, language is a socially mediated process. Language mediates social and psychological activities.

When applying this theory, it is necessary to group all the actors involved in the process of acquisition of language because Vygostki confers a high importance to the role of social interaction to the social being.

Leraners, observe and imitate others target language speakers models for having an example to follow.  Collaboration is really important in this theory, which promotes interaction among apprentices that can facilitate the movement from one stage to a more advanced one.

Scaffolding is a key word when discussing important concepts in the sociocultural theory. Scaffolding is related to the support offered from another person in order to solve a task.

4. Page 18 and 19. Intercultural Communicative Competence. Mychael Byram.




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