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Elizabeth Ashton – Routledge Research in Education, 2022
This book provides a fresh approach to motivation in primary school children by exploring the role of metaphor and symbol in language and art as a means of expressing insights developed through learning. The book investigates and transcends Piaget's dominant child developmental theories and considers alternative theories from psychiatry, not least…
Descriptors: Language Role, Figurative Language, Student Motivation, Elementary School Students
Swain, Merrill; Kinnear, Penny; Steinman, Linda – Multilingual Matters, 2010
In this accessible introduction to Vygotskyian sociocultural theory, narratives illuminate key concepts of the theory. These key concepts, addressed across seven chapters, include mediation; Zone of Proximal Development; collaborative dialogue; private speech; everyday and scientific concepts; the interrelatedness of cognition and emotion,…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Audiences, Scientific Concepts, Second Language Instruction