Vygotsky's Zone of Proximal Development: Instructional Implications and Teachers' Professional Development

Shabani, Karim; Khatib, Mohamad; Ebadi, Saman

doi:10.5539/elt.v3n4p237

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Vygotsky's Zone of Proximal Development: Instructional Implications and Teachers' Professional Development

Published in English Language Teaching • Nov 16, 2010

Authors:

Karim Shabani

Mohamad Khatib

Saman Ebadi

Abstract

The current paper examines the instructional implications of Vygotsky's (1978) seminal notion of Zone of Proximal Development, originally developed to account for the learning potential of children, and investigates ZPD applications to the concept of teacher professional development. Specific attemp...

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Zone of proximal development

Metaphor

Practicum

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