The Sociocultural Theory

The sociocultural theory affirms that children learn from interacting with adults and with member of the society, according to Vygotsky there is a psychological process inside of children and language learner before they can share it or use it in social context.

     According to this theory exist mediation between our thought and the environment, we can use language as thought tool to impact our world and the developed tools like writing, impact our thought. An example may be the social network Facebook, is a tool that impact our thought, we have new words after facebook twitter and other technology devices, so we can say that there is a mediation, then learning is mediated by language and social elements.

     Regulations in social cultural theory refers how things are limited and controlled while learning a new language, at the first stage is regulate by other, by the teacher when he is helping ELL to acquire the language until, ELL get to appropriate the language.

     Then it comes, the  zone of proximal development, that support the idea that ELL are supported by their teacher in the process of second language acquisition and peer in more advance level but in this stage, ELL can be comfortable with some knowledge that did not have before.  

References

Lantolf, J. & Thorne, S. L. (2007). Sociocultural Theory and Second Language Learning. In. B. van Patten & J. Williams (eds.), Theories in Second Language Acquisition (pp. 201-224). Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum.

Social cultural theory https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AkBbniuiMU0

Social cultural theory

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