ReadingLive: The ZPD and Second Language Learning: A Method for Future-in-the-Making 2021-05-25

ReadingLive: Moscow CHAT Reading Club is a forum for psychologists, educators, researchers, students and all those interested in Cultural-Historical Psychology and Activity Approach.
Note: Cultural-Historical Psychology and Activity Theory (CHAT)
Meeting 6. May, 25 (2021) Topic: The ZPD and Second Language Learning: A Method for Future-in-the-Making

Experts to speak:
👨‍💼 Matthew E. Poehner, Associate Department Head of Curriculum & Instruction; Professor of Education (WLED & Applied Linguistics), The Pennsylvania State University (USA).
👨‍💼 James P. Lantolf George and Jane Greer Professor Emeritus in Language Acquisition and Applied Linguistics Director, Center for Advanced Language Proficiency Education and Research Xi’an Jiaotong University (P.R. China) and The Pennsylvania State University (USA) (Emeritus).
Eduardo Negueruela-Azarola, ILCE Research and Academic Director, University of Navarra (Spain).

The talk started with an overview of important contributions and approaches to Dynamic Assessment (DA) that have been pursued by second language (L2) researchers in their efforts to identify learner “ripening” abilities and align subsequent instruction to them in order to promote development (Poehner, 2018; Poehner & Wang, 2020). Turning to the problem raised by Valsiner and van der Veer (1993) concerning the Zone of proximal development (ZPD), the authors proposed that this work offers a potential solution to the methodological difficulty of empirically observing “the future in the present”. Specifically, they suggested that the quality of mediation required by learners during DA may be interpreted as indicative of how ‘near’ or ‘far’ learners are from independent performance, that is, from the language abilities in question shifting from the ZPD to ZAD. In this way, future independent performance is brought into the present during DA – a dialectical activity in which tension between learner’s actual abilities and the demands of the task are resolved through mediator-learner cooperation. The presenters showed how this approach to possibly observing the future-in-the-making can be further developed through increased attention to the forms of learner’s contribution and responsiveness during DA. They suggest that the concept of learner reciprocity, originating in the DA research of Lidz (1991) and Feuerstein (Feuerstein et al., 2003), offers a point of departure for capturing the various ways in which learners may engage with mediation and how this offers insights into emerging abilities. While preliminary studies of reciprocity in L2 DA have been undertaken (e.g., Ableeva, 2018; Poehner 2008), a framework to guide the integrated interpretation of mediator and learner moves has yet to be determined. According to M. Poehner and J. Lantolf such a framework offers a resolution to Valsiner and van der Veer’s methodological paradox.

⏰ Timecode:
00:00 - Opening word by the Olga Rubtsova
05:50 — Presentation «The ZPD and Second Language Learning: A Method for Future-in-the-Making» by Matthew E. Poehner
33:44 - James P. Lantolf talks about the example of mediation at the ZPD
58:14 - To further elaborate on the notion of creativity from a SCT perspective and outline possible implications for understanding the ZPD in the L2 classroom. Eduardo Negueruela-Azarola

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The project is aimed at psychologists, educators, researchers, students and all those interested in Cultural-Historical Psychology and Activity Approach. “ReadingLive” is a special setting, where people from all over the world are invited to read and discuss both classical and contemporary works, written in the framework of the Cultural-Historical Psychology and Activity Approach.

Project Moderators
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