CLA Social Interactionism Quiz

Which theorist in the 1920s stressed the importance of 'doing' in the learning process?

• Jerome Bruner

• Noam Chomsky

• Jean Piaget

• Lev Vygotsky

What does Lev Vygotksy call the person responsible for working out what the learner can and can't do on their own in order to support their learning?

• More Knowledgeable Other

• Expert

• Teacher

• John

What does Vygotsky call the 'space' in between what the learner can do on their own already what the learner cannot do on their own?

• Zone of learning potential

• Zone of optimal progression

• Zone of proximal development

• Zone of operational development

Which theorist developed Vygotsky's ideas and applied them to language learning in 1976?

• Jerome Bruner

• Noam Chomsky

• Jean Piaget

• B. F. Skinner

What metaphor for the active support does Bruner use to help explain how child learn?

• Stabilisers

• Water wings

• Scaffolding

• Language Acquisition Device

What nativist concept does Jerome Bruner accept but considers insufficient on its own?

• Language Acquisition Device

• Assimilation

• Accommodation

• Operant conditioning

Bruner suggests that the LAD must work alongside the active support of the caregiver. He calls this active support the...

• Language Acquisition Scaffolding System

• Language Acquisition Stabilising System

• Language Acquisition Schema System

• Language Acquisition Support System