Defining the Zone of Proximal Development in US Foreign Language Education.

Kinginger, Celeste

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Publication Date: 2002

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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 - Location: United States

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