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ERIC Number: EJ605121
Record Type: CIJE
Publication Date: 2000
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ISSN: ISSN-1362-1688
What's a ZPD? A Case Study of a Young ESL Student and Teacher Interacting through Dialogue Journals.
Nassaji, Hossein; Cumming, Alister
Language Teaching Research, v4 n2 p95-121 May 2000
Using a case study account of features of the zone of proximal development in language teaching and learning, this study analyzed 95 exchanges in interactive dialogue journals written over 10 months between a 6-year-old Farsi speaker beginning to learn English from his Canadian teacher. Suggests the value of analyzing language learning and teaching as integrally unified, interactive phenomena. (Author/VWL)
Descriptors: Case Studies, Dialog Journals, English (Second Language), Journal Writing, Learning Theories, Persian, Second Language Instruction, Second Language Learning, Teacher Student Relationship, Uncommonly Taught Languages
Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research
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Language: English
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Identifiers: Zone of Proximal Development