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Showing 1 to 5 of 5 for “"Vygotsky's sociocultural theory"”.
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Teacher sense-making of english curriculum reform in China: a sociocultural perspective on teacher change and development
… mandated education reforms. This study draws on Vygotsky's sociocultural theory to understand the nature of teacher sense-making of English language curriculum reform in China through the lens of the 'lived experience' of EFL teachers. The research reports on a case study of sixteen English …
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Pre-service Chinese English as A Foreign Language (EFL) Teachers Perceptions about Implementation of Communicative Language Teaching
… perceptions about CLT and its implementation? Vygotsky's sociocultural theory was applied as the framework to examine the process of the participants' perceptions. The study indicates that these pre-service EFL teachers considered CLT as an ineffective teaching approach for transferring …
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Multimodal meaning making and the doctoral dissertation – An exploration of academic forms
… concepts that guide the field and drawing from Vygotsky's Sociocultural Theory of Cognitive Development and Freire's Critical Pedagogy. To gain a deeper understanding of the challenges and difficulties in producing a multimodal dissertation, a case study was conducted with four multimodal …
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Language and conflict detection in the development of executive function
… about how it develops. Conflict monitoring theory has emphasized the role of prefrontally-based conflict monitoring and detection mechanisms in the activation of control processes. In contrast, Vygotsky's sociocultural theory of development suggests that experience, especially language, …
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Efficacy of Zulu indigenous games in enhancing perceptual-motor skills in pre-schoolers: a qualitative study of two informal settlements in Kwa Zulu Natal
… skills in Zulu indigenous games, drawing on Vygotsky's Sociocultural Theory, Piaget's Cognitive Development Theory, and Bronfenbrenner's Ecological Systems Theory, to enhance the school readiness of Grade R learners in a resource-constrained context. Data was collected using a qualitative …