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UCT – B.Ed. (Honours) – 2013 LEARNING AND CONGNITION ESSAY: Discuss Vygotsky’s concept of the Zone of Proximal Development (Vygostky’s, 1978) and draw on Hedegaard’s work (1993) to illustrate how you would utilize this conceptual notion in your teaching context. Name | D. Kay. | Student Number | | Departement | School of Education | Email | | Date | 14 October 2013 | Course Convenor | Jo. Hard. | Plagiarism Declaration 1. I know that plagiarism is wrong. Plagiarism is to use another’s work and to pretend that it is one’s own.2. I have used the acceptable convention for citation and referencing. Each significant contribution to and quotation in this essay project from the work, or works of other people has been acknowledged through citation and reference.3. This essay/ report/ project is my own work.4. I have not, and will not allow, anyone to copy my work with the intention of passing it off as his or her own work.Signed ______________ Date 14 October 2013 | Discuss Vygotsky’s concept of the Zone of Proximal Development (Vygostky’s, 1978) and draw on Hedegaard’s work (1993) to illustrate how you would utilize this conceptual notion in your teaching context. As an educator of French as a foreign language, defining the meaning of instruction is a very fundamental move to understand students’ learning. Like every child understands the culture and customs of the society in which they grow up in, learners are disposed of prerequisite standard that help them understand the model in new instruction. Vygotsky’s Zone of Proximal Development concept would make a basis for learning and instruction to understand children’s second language acquisition in a class environment. This being, what sort of instruction would then be required for a child who is learning French as a second language? Any second language teacher may be able to

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