Teacher's Professional Development from Vygotskian Optique

Autor/in	Shabani, Karim
Titel	Teacher's Professional Development from Vygotskian Optique
Quelle	In: Advances in Language and Literary Studies, 3 (2012) 2, S.101-120 (20 Seiten) PDF als Volltext kostenfreie Datei Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	2203-4714
Schlagwörter	Faculty Development; Qualitative Research; Sociocultural Patterns; English (Second Language); Second Language Learning; Second Language Instruction; Language Teachers; Teacher Education; Learning Theories; Heuristics; Cognitive Psychology + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Qualitative Forschung; Soziokulturelle Theorie; English as second language; English; Second Language; Englisch als Zweitsprache; Zweitsprachenerwerb; Fremdsprachenunterricht; Language teacher; Sprachunterricht; Lehrerausbildung; Lehrerbildung; Learning theory; Lerntheorie; Heuristik; Kognitive Psychologie
Abstract	Vygotsky's concept of ZPD (Zone of Proximal Development) has been recently applied to the context of language teacher education by a number of researchers (e.g. Ohta, 2005; Singh & Richards, 2006; Nassaji & Cumming, 2000). Besides Vygotsky's notion of ZPD, this paper relies on two associated theories from outside the TESOL discipline namely; Valsiner's (1997) Zone theory and Blanton, Westbrook and Carter's (2008) illusionary zone (IZ)to provide a broad picture of the most influential variables facilitating or constraining teacher's professional development or, as specifically defined here, his ZPD progression. Several excerpts in the form of teacher comments taken from different qualitative studies in the related literature are given to lay evidence for the effect, if any, of the raised variables. Finally, the paper concludes with some practical tips for the pre/in-service language teachers as to how to keep their evolving ZPD dynamic in their long-life language teaching profession. (As Provided).
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Update	2020/1/01