Interest: private speech
When we communicate socially, we appropriate patterns and meanings of this speech and utilise it inwardly to mediate our mental activity, this is what is meant by private speech. Private speech need not be fully syntactic in its form, utterances are not intended to be interpreted by others; they are addressed by the learner to himself - links to the idea that each psychological function appears twice - once interpersonally and then again intra-personally; this intrapersonal processing is private speech. Private speech is a way of internalising linguistic features available in the speaker's environment, often achieved through imitation. we do this when we learn anything new???
This article defines the original concept of scaffolding as defined by Bruner, related to the notion of ZPD in Vygotsky. The study gives examples of the role talk can play in scaffolding students' learning. Maybin et al caution the reader that many factors need to be considered when undertaking an analysis of scaffolding.
This article describes how scaffolding can be successful and goes into conclude that there are 6 key ingredients for scaffolding learning: recruitment, reduction in the degree of freedom, direct maintenance, marking for critical features, frustration control, demonstration
Helpful article about process writing and structured scaffolding where each student has a specific role in group work. Many editing stages with student-student and teacher-student feedback.
EAL sociocultural theory with lots of background, then ideas for the class. How to move kids along in the ZPD. Considers feedback in relation to ZPD and importance of meta-language