LANGUAGE ACQUISITION – 212

WEEK 5

What I learnt was that according to social interactıonism children are born
into a social world and best learn by interacting with other people.

One of the supporters is Vygotsky who claims that lang. learning is

learned through interactıonism, as well as speech signs and symbols
are also crucial in learning environment, by means of lang. Culture is
transmitted, items and skills to be learnt should be handled with a
holistic perspective rathar than separated and broken down
components..Vygotsky also mentıon the importance of mediatıon and
mediator (a learning method actualised by the interactıon between two
or more people with different levels of knowledge, that is the one who has
more knowledge will help the other learn.), zone of proximity
development (learner should be enabled with a skill or knowledge just
one layer above his/her current capacity-something like İ+1 in natural
approach.) Lastly, he saw meaning more important than structure.
The other supporter was Feuerstein(Israel) who claimed that everyone
can learn effectively and mentıoned some terms such as structural
cognitive modifiability (the belief that person’s cognitive structures can
be altered forever and this comes true through our lives.) ,insturumental
enrichment (teaching people how to learn)and dynamic assessment (the
asssessor enters a dialoge with the one being assessed to find out her
current level of capacity and shares possible ways to help her improve her
capacity.) he also pay attentıon to mediators as he believes they are an
important factor in transmitıon of culture.
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I had no diffıculty in understanding the lesson.THANK U!!!
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I suppose I need to focus more on being able to see my future students as
wholeperson.and learn some techniques about this issue.
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I believe I may make use mediators. Maybe forming study groups of
different levels ı can let students learn from each other botn in classroom
and outside the classroom. But ı don’t agree with the holistic
perspective of Vygotsky fully because ı think it is not applicaple all the
time.we will inevitably very young learners and if we give things as a big
whole they will not be able to understand them.by just teaching things bıt
by bit both they will not feel stressed and incapable and using their minds
in full extents they will be able to reach the whole by not only with their
own effort and by improving their thinking. Otherwise they only get the
knowledge in hand and will not contribute to learning process. However, ı
cannot tell he is ultimately wrong.
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