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ERIC Number: EJ647325
Record Type: CIJE
Publication Date: 2002
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ISSN: ISSN-0142-6001
Defining the Zone of Proximal Development in US Foreign Language Education.
Kinginger, Celeste
Applied Linguistics, v23 n2 p240-61 Jun 2002
Focuses on interpretations of Vygotsky's Zone of Proximal Development for foreign language teaching in the United States. Comments on progressive and conservative trends in the U.S. foreign language profession and on the reception of the construct, focusing on three cases in which the ZPD has been invoked in recent publications on research and classroom teaching. (Author/VWL)
Descriptors: Educational Theories, Metalinguistics, Scaffolding (Teaching Technique), Second Language Instruction, Second Language Learning
Publication Type: Journal Articles; Opinion Papers
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Language: English
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Identifiers: United States; Vygotsky (Lev S); Zone of Proximal Development