The "zone of proximal development" is a concept introduced by a Russian psychologist and child development specialist named Lev Vygotsky. While the concept is usually applied to children and ...

For the past decade or so, distance learning proponents and practitioners have been fond of saying that the learning theory they claim is the social-constructivist theory developed by Vygotski in the ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Journal Information A refereed publication, The Modern Language Journal is dedicated to promoting scholarly exchange among teachers and researchers of ...