The problem of consciousness in Vygotsky`s Approach

Emotional Experience and Immanent Expressive Activity in Human Minds

Vygotsky insisted the need of studying the human consciousness for total understanding the human mind throughout his life. For describing the real human mental activities, Vygotsky focused on the different two phases of the actual mental activities, i.e., verbal thinking and the emotional experience. He considered the emotional experience (perezhivanie) as emerge from the interconnection betwee...

Naturalizing Self-Consciousness

The crucial problem of self-consciousness is how to account for knowing self-reference without launching into a regress or without presupposing self-consciousness rather than accounting for it (circle). In the literature we find two bottom-up proposals for solving the traditional problem: the postulation of nonconceptual forms of self-consciousness and the postulation of a pre-reflexive form of...

The Role of L . S . Vygotsky in the Development of Problems of Perception

In his investigation of problems of the sociohistorical determinants of human consciousness, Vygotsky concentrated his attention mainly on study of the genesis, functions, and structure of the " higher mental functions " —verbal thought, voluntary regulation of actions, logical memory, creative imagination, and so forth, which together constitute man's specific identity as a social being. It wa...

Consciousness-raising tasks versus deductive approach: two form-focused instruction types in teaching grammar to Iranian high school EFL learners

Consciousness-raising (CR) task is a new way of teaching grammar developed in communicative contexts although little has been written on the effectiveness of CR tasks in EFL setting. The present study is an attempt to investigate the impact of CR tasks in Iranian EFL setting by comparing them with deductive, grammar lessons common in the Iranian schools. The subjects of this study were 80 EFL p...

Vygotsky & the Concept of Consciousness