Sociocultural Theory

The sociocultural theory views language as a ……

• tool of thought

• symbolic sign

• means of meditation

• All above

The metaphor Scaffolding was prompted by….

• Lantolf, Poehner and Thorne

• Bruner, Wood and Ross

• Rogoff, Swain and Lapkin

• Lev Vygotsky

Private speech serves a communicative function rather than intellectual and self-regulating functions.

• True

• False

Contemporary activity theorists such as Leontiev demonstrated this idea with the example of the “hunter-gatherer culture”

• True

• False

Vygotsky considered the ZPD to be a better and more dynamic indicator of cognitive development as compared to merely measuring what children can accomplish independently.

• True

• False