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Think You're An Auditory Or Visual Learner? Scientists Say It's Unlikely : Shots - Health Blog. iStockphoto.com We've all heard the theory that some students are visual learners, while others are auditory learners.

Think You're An Auditory Or Visual Learner? Scientists Say It's Unlikely : Shots - Health Blog

And still other kids learn best when lessons involve movement. Journals.sfu.ca/tesl/index.php/tesl/article/viewFile/575/406. Www.celea.org.cn/2007/keynote/ppt/Merrill Swain.pdf. Activity Theory. Summary: Activity Theory is a framework or descriptive tool for a system.

Activity Theory

People are socio-culturally embedded actors (not processors or system components). There exists a hierarchical analysis of motivated human action (levels of activity analysis). Originator: Vygotsky, Leont’ev, Luria, and others starting in the 1920s. Social Development Theory (Vygotsky. Summary: Social Development Theory argues that social interaction precedes development; consciousness and cognition are the end product of socialization and social behavior.

Social Development Theory (Vygotsky

Originator: Lev Vygotsky (1896-1934). Key terms: Zone of Proximal Development (ZPD), More Knowledgeable Other (MKO) Vygotsky’s Social Development Theory.

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