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Licda. Silvia SowaSTUDENT: Dibri Selomit Girón de FrancoID: 6076-14-21718DATE: April 1, 2017

FACULTAD DE HUMANIDADES, ESCUELA DE IDIOMAS Licenciatura en la Enseñanza del Idioma Inglés con especialización en Tecnología Educativa

LEV VIGOTSKY PRESENTATION

LEV VIGOTSKYNovember 17, 1896 to June 11, 1934

He was a seminal Russian psychologist, who is best-knownfor his sociocultura theory. He believed that social interaction played a critical role in children's learning. He also thought that culture play a very important role in this process. Another important aspects for his theory are guided learning, imitation and collaborative learning.

Lev Vygotsky was born in Orsha, a city in the western region of the Russian Empire.He attended Moscow State University, where he graduated with a degree in law in 1917. He studied a range of topics white attending university, including sociology, linguistics, psychology, and philosophy. However, his formal work in psychology did not begin until 1924 when he attended the Institute of Psychology in Moscow.He completed a dissertation in 1925 on the psychology of art but was awarded his degree in absentia due to an acute tuberculosis relapse that left him incapacitated for a year. Following his illness, Vygotsky began researching topics such as language, attention, and memory with the help of students including Alexei Leontiev and Alexander Luria.

BIOGRAPHY

LEV VIGOTSKY CAREER

Lev Vygotsky was a prolific writer, publishing six books on psychology topics over a ten-year period. His interests were quite diverse but often centered on issues of child development and education. He also explored such subjects as the psychology of art and language development.

LEV VIGOTSKY THEORYLev Vygotsky also suggested that human development results from a dynamic interaction between individuals and society. Through this interaction, children learn gradually and continuously from parent and teachers. This learning, however, can vary from one culture to the next.It is important to note that Vygotsky's theory emphasizes the dynamic nature of this interaction. Society doesn't just impact people; people also affect their society. Vygotsky's theory stresses the fundamental role of social interaction in the development of cognition, as he believed strongly that community plays a central role in the process of "making meaning."

IMPORTANT ASPECTS OF THIS THEORYThe Zone of Proximal Development It has been defined as: “the distance between the actual developmental level as determined by independent problem solving and the level of potential development as determined through problem solving under adult guidance, or in collaboration with more capable peers. Essentially, it includes all of the knowledge and skills that a person cannot yet understand or perform on their own yet but is capable of learning with guidance.

Scoffolding AspectIt is the support that students receive in order to learn. It focus what students what can do on their own without support, step by step in order to master students in the area or ability that teachers want.

EMPHASIS OF HIS THEORY

He emphasizes the culture because he believed that cultureaffects cognitive development.

He emphasizes the social factors. He believed that they contribute to cognitive development.

He places emphasis on the role of language in cognitive development.

He believed that adults are an important source of cognitive development.

HOW CAN THIS THEORY HELP?

• Helps us to understand how people learn in social contexts.

• Teachers can understand how students learn from each other.

• Helps teachers to construct active learning communities.• Helps teachers to create a learning environment in which

students can maximize the ability of interacting with each other through discussion, collaboration and feedback.

• Helps teacher to promote thinking, to develop reasoning and support

• Cultural activities which help students to interact with each others.

CONCLUSIONAfter this investigation about Lev Vigotsky; I can say that it is very important toknow about different theories of different authors who are contributed to education and to improve the learning process and for understanding better this process and students too.

ACTIVITYLEARNING WORDS ACTIVITY

Teachers gives students in group some beans for helping them to identify how many sounds have the words that teacher brings to class in order they can interact and help each other and master these words. The student might be asked to place a bean on the table to show each sound in a word, and finally the students might identify the sounds without beans. When teacher provides students with beans teacher is using the scaffolding aspect of the Lev Vigotsky Theory.

UNIVERSIDAD MARIANO GÁLVEZ DE GUATEMALA WORKSHEET FOR APPLYING THE LEV VIGOTSKY

THEORY MEMBERS NAME:_________________________________________________________________

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GENERAL DIRECTIONS: Use your pencil for working this worksheet.

WORDS: mom, dadgrandmother grandfathersister brotherparents babyaunt uncle niece nephewdaughter son

I PART: With the beans that teacher gives you select the number of beans that each word have for learning the Family Members Vocabulary. Do this activity with the group that  II PART: After do part I, without beans, write in the blanks the letters that are missing from the same vocabulary.

1. m ___ m 8. d a _____ 2. g r ____ n _____ m_____ t h ____ r 9. g ___ a ____ d f ____ t ____ e r 3. s_____ s _____ _____ r 10. b___ o t ____ e ____ r 4. p____ r e ____ t_____ 11. b____ b_____ 5. a ____ n __ 12. u____ c___ _____ 6. n ____ e c ____ 13. n____ p h ____ _____ 7. d____ u g ____ t ____ r 14. s____ n