this investigation postulatesvygotsky’s (1978) concept of zone of proximal development (zpd) and his related “scaffolding” metaphor as well as norton’s (2006) principles of sociocultural identity as its theoretical foundation.thisresearchintends to scrutinizethe socioculturally-oriented mediationalmechanisms utilized in student-student and student-teacher collaborationsin an iranian efl writing...

introduction: the term dynamic assessment (da) refers to an assessment, by an active teaching process, of a child's perception, learning, thinking, and problem solving. the process is aimed at modifying an individual's cognitive functioning and observing subsequent changes in learning and problem-solving patterns within the testing situation. da has been advocated as an alternative an...

<p style="text-align: justify;">This article highlights the main ideas that underlie differences in potential pragmatic knowledge constructs students experience when solving problems, between zone of proximal development (ZPD) and construction (ZPC). This qualitative research is based on a phenomenological approach to finding meaning things are fundamental essential from ZPD ZPC phenomena...

The purpose of this study was to develop a futsal ball thrower for skill training in game. development conducted order advance the previous machine which already existed be more maximum helping athlete exercising skills. developed equipped with: 1) A basket can storage 5 balls; 2) various speed ejection; 3) Two ejection heads angle set up; 4) Manual and automatic operation; 5) Flexibility that ...

As the focus of Australian educational research has shifted to studying the quality of teacher intervention, the notion of scaffolding is becoming increasingly popular among educators in different areas such as literacy and numeracy, early childhood education and educational psychology for adults. Vygotskian socio-cultural psychology, and the zone of proximal development (ZPD) in particular, is...

The vertebrate egg coat, including mammalian zona pellucida, is an oocyte-specific extracellular matrix comprising two to six zona pellucida (ZP) glycoproteins. The egg coat plays important roles in fertilization, especially in species-specific interactions with sperm to induce the sperm acrosome reaction and to form the block to polyspermy. It is suggested that the physiological functions of t...

The Zone of Proximal Development is an appealing and persuasive idea for those concerned with how best to help learners learn. In essence the ZPD requires collaboration or assistance for a learner from another more able partner. The need for this more able learning partner arises from the belief that the activities which form a part of the child’s education must be beyond the range of her indep...