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标题：The Role of Imitation in Teaching English Adjectives in the Realm of ZPD
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作者：Zeinab Azizi
期刊名称：International Review of Social Sciences and Humanities
印刷版ISSN：2250-0715
电子版ISSN：2248-9010
出版年度：2012
卷号：2
期号：2
页码：143-149
出版社：International Review of Social Sciences and Humanities
摘要：The educational concept of the zone of proximal development of the Russian psychologist Lev S. Vygotsky (1896-1934) has been applied in a number of language studies that showsthe capability of learner with equal levels of mental development to learn under a teacher's guidance enhances. Vygotsky addresses the role that communication and imitation play in development learning and further explains that children can imitate a variety of actions that go well beyond the limits of their own capabilities. Learning by imitation presents a rich domain for teaching and learning via interactions. Imitation even in its simple forms is a faster and more efficient form of acquiring new behaviours than its traditional classical conditioning and reinforcement learning counterparts; in humans it is critical during development and remains an important aspect of social interaction and adaptation throughout life.High school students are cooperated in this study to investigate the role of imitation in ZPD. After dividing the students in to ZPD Imitative and Non-ZPD Imitative groups two tests were administered to see the possible differences between them and to see whether imitative learning through mentoring teaching provided within learners' ZPD improve their knowledge of adjectives. It was found that students learn better and deeper if they are taught English adjectives, within their ZPD. Learning is significantly enhanced when the class atmosphere is ready for imitative learning.
关键词：ZPD in pedagogy; mentoring teaching; Neo-Vygotskian view.