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Barrs, Myra – Changing English: Studies in Culture and Education, 2017
This article introduces the new translation by Stanley Mitchell of a very well-known Vygotskyan text, which has become the locus classicus for Vygotsky's concept of the "zone of proximal development" (ZPD). It outlines the history of Vygotsky's text and compares Mitchell's new translation with the version found in Chapter 6 of "Mind…
Descriptors: Sociocultural Patterns, Learning Theories, Comparative Analysis, Teaching Methods
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Barrs, Myra – Changing English: Studies in Culture and Education, 2016
The last chapter of Vygotsky's last book, "Thinking and Speech," is a compressed argument about the construction of consciousness through the internalisation of language. This article comments on Vygotsky's analysis of the "voyage into the interior" undertaken by oral speech as it is internalised and abbreviated into…
Descriptors: Linguistic Theory, Cognitive Processes, Language Acquisition, Oral Language