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The ZPD and Whole Class Teaching: Teacher-Led and Student-Led Interactional Mediation of Tasks
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Guk, Iju; Kellogg, David – Language Teaching Research, 2007
Vygotsky's "zone of proximal development (ZPD)" has become associated with the individual "scaffolding" of learners. As a result, because teachers need to teach the whole class, many public school teachers have had to dismiss the concept as unworkable. Yet Vygotsky himself was chiefly concerned with public school teaching and…
Descriptors: Public Schools, Public School Teachers, Social Environment, Scaffolding (Teaching Technique)