ENG504 Quiz 4

ENG504

QUIZ 4, 2023

•  Self-regulation is the capability of autonomous functioning that mature and skilled individual possess.
•  Successful learning involves a shift from collaborative inter-mental activity to autonomous intra-mental activity.
•  The process of supportive dialogue that prompts them through successive steps of a problem is known as ‘scaffolding’.
•  The domain where learning can most productively take place is named as the ‘Zone of Proximal Development’.
•  Learning is first seen as social, then individual consciousness and conceptual development are seen firstly as inter-mental phenomena.
•  Language is the prime symbolic mediating tool for this development.
•  Phylogenies are the learning that happens across different human races across different periods of time.
•  Microgenesis is the description of how humans learn throughout their life.
•  Ontogenesis is the learning that infants pass through in the course of their early development.
•  Young children are well known to engage in private speech,
•  Private speech in classic Piagetian theory is seen as an evidence of children’s egocentrism.
•  Socio-cultural theory interprets it as an evidence of children’s growing ability to regulate their own behavior.
•  For Vygotsky, private speech eventually becomes inner speech, a use of language to regulate internal thought without any external articulation.
•  Activity theory comprises a series of proposals for the social context within which individual learning takes place.
•  Activity is defined in terms of sociocultural settings in which collaborative interaction, inter-subjectivity, and assisted performance occur.
•  Actions are always goal-directed.
•  Socio-cultural perspective sees early language learning as a process of meaning-making.
•  Language itself develops as a ‘tool’ for making meaning.
•  Knowledge is constructed through collaborative activity.
•  The aspect of private speech has been regularly noted in naturalistic studies of child SLA.
•  Vygotskyan perspective, it provides evidence about the role of language in problem solving, self-regulation, and appropriation.
•  Early studies of private speech worked with data elicited from older learners in semi-controlled settings.
•  Three main types of second language private speeches were identified by Ohta (2001).
•  Activity theory strongly argues for the distinctive nature of individual interactions as experienced by the participants.
•  Aljaafreh and Lantolf (1994) conducted a study to examine SL development during scaffolded teacher-student talk.
•  ZPD stands for : Zone of proximal development
•  rejects conventional separation between social and psychological aspects of cognition and development: socio-cultural theory
•  Socio-cultural theory rejects the classic view of language as a formal abstract system that is distinct from language use.
•  research approaches are affected by difficulties in developing causal Explanations and generalizations through naturalistic research.
•  Socio-cultural theory views language as a ‘tool for thought.
•  Private speech and meta-statement are values used positively as instruments for self-regulation.
•  Sociolinguists are interested in explaining why we speak differently in different social contexts.
•  Researchers in socialization believe that language and culture are not separable.
•  Meanings and functions are socioculturally organized; linguistic knowledge is embedded in sociocultural knowledge.
•  Understanding of social organization of everyday life is acquired through language.
•  The communities of practice are an aggregate of people who come together around mutual engagement in an endeavor and this is different from the traditional community.
•  The social structure of communities and the power relations obtaining within them define the learning possibilities available to the members.
•  The most obvious application was to consider the classroom as a community of practice.
•  Social identity is the sense of ‘belonging’ to a particular social group, whether defined by ethnicity, by language, or any other means.
•  concept has been criticized for being too static and too focused on the individual: social identity
•  Norton’s (2000) longitudinal study explored changes in social identity over time, particularly, their struggle to achieve the right to speak in SL settings.

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