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Vygotsky provides us with a Social Cognitive Learning Theory that we can apply to education. Two critical concepts of his theory include the Zone of Proximal Development (ZPD), and Instructional scaffolding. The ZPD is a range of tasks that are within a childâs cognitive ability to learn with assistance.Zone of proximal development  (ZPD) is Vygotskyâs term for the range of tasks that a child is in the process of learning to complete. The lower limit of ZPD is the level of skill reached by the child working independently (also referred to as the childâs actual developmental level).
matter of syntactic structures but also as a matter of discourse. Vygotsky, a psychologist. responsible for the foundation of the social interactionist theory states that meaningful. interaction with others is the basis of new knowledge acquisition (Vygotsky, 1987). According to Brown (2000), Vygotsky proposed the zone of proximal development. (ZPD), where learners construct the new language through socially mediated. interaction.