Vygotsky's sociocultural development

Children often use ______ when the task is too difficult and the children don’t know how to proceed.

• Inner speech

• Internalization

• Private speech

Development depends on _______ with people and the tools that culture provides to help form their own view of the world.

• language

• interactions

• instructed learning

Social interactions can stimulate the development process and foster cognitive growth but sometimes they are not useful in _____

• transforming thinking

• providing information

• cultural transmission

The zone of proximal development refers to the difference between what a learner can do without help and what he or she can achieve with guidance and encouragement from ____

• an assistant

• a regular peer

• a skilled partner

In ZDP, students bring their own understandings to social interactions and construct meanings by integrating those understandings with their experiences in the context.

• TRUE

• FALSE

When peers work on tasks cooperatively, the shared social interactions can serve an _______________ function.

Which strategy below is NOT in reciprocal teaching?

• clarifying

• Questioning

• Summarizing

• Responding

Peer-assisted learning can foster academic and social motivation for learning

• TRUE

• FALSE

ZDP is a/an…of students’ readiness or intellectual level and shows how learning and development are related.

• test

• assistant

• work

• a

Regarding mediation, humans do not act directly on the physical world but rely on _____ which allows us to change the world.

• tools

• language

• pointing