1.10 Reflection activity 1

Drawing from your study of this section:

• consider the insights you have gained into the ‘importance of spoken language in the processes of teaching and learning’
• apply these insights to either a formal or informal educational context with which you are familiar.

You might like to write down your thoughts in the form of an essay, aiming for about 2000 words (excluding appendices and references).

Notes

This activity gives you the opportunity to engage with key ideas in this section and, in particular, the sociocultural approach and discourse features and strategies such as IRF sequences, scaffolding and exploratory talk. Your main source of information will be section 1 of this unit. Having followed the guidance and activites in this unit you will also find much related discussion and information in Hicks’s reading.

The activity should also allow you to explore the sociocultural perspective, which, building on Vygotsky’s work, informs this section. The notion of ‘discourse’ and the social nature of talking, thinking and learning are key ideas here. In applying your understanding and insights to an educational context you may draw on your own experience or practice from within either a formal context, such as a mainstream classroom, or an informal context, such as an interaction between a parent and child.

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