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English Language Teaching Vol. 3, No. 4; December 2010. Vygotsky's Zone of Proximal development : Instructional Implications and Teachers' Professional development Karim Shabani Faculty Member at Allameh Mohades Nouri University PhD Candidate of TEFL at University of Tehran, Iran E-mail: Mohamad Khatib Assistant Professor, Allameh Tabataba'i Uinversity (ATU), Tehran, Iran E-mail: Saman Ebadi PhD Candidate in TEFL, Allameh Tabatabie University, Tehran, Iran E-mail: Abstract The current paper examines the Instructional implications of Vygotsky's (1978) seminal notion of Zone of Proximal development , originally developed to account for the learning potential of children, and investigates ZPD. applications to the concept of teacher professional development . Specific attempt has been made to see how a number of assets at the teacher's disposal namely diary writing, peer and mentor collaboration, action research, practicum and TESOL discourse can serve as scaffolders to affect the progression of ZPD in language teachers.
Vygotsky (1962) introduced the concept of ZPD to criticize the psychometric-based testing in Russian schools. The traditional testing reflected only the current level of learners’ achievement, rather than learner’s potential for development in future .The zone of actual development(ZAD)does not sufficiently describe development. Rather, it
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