Showing items with similar title or keywords.

• Developing a metatheoretical framework for second language development : a cultural-historical theory and dynamic systems theory perspective 

  Karimi-Aghdam-Ordaklou, Saeed (University of Jyväskylä, 2017)

  The main aim of this article-based dissertation is to construct and articulate a dialectical metatheoretical architecture for the study of second language development termed Purposive-Historical Systems Theory (PHiST) ...

• Zone of Proximal Development (ZPD) as an emergent system : A dynamic systems theory perspective 

  Karimi Aghdam, Saeed (Springer New York LLC, 2017)

  This paper sets out to present a novel construal of one of the notions of Vygotskian cultural-historical theory viz., zone of proximal development (ZPD) drawing upon dynamic systems theory. The principal thesis maintains ...

• A Dialectical Reading of Dynamic Systems Theory : Transcending Socialized Cognition and Cognized Social Dualism in L2 Studies 

  Karimi Aghdam, Saeed (Equinox Publishing Ltd., 2016)

  Dynamic systems theory (DST) has affordances to be a quintessential metatheoretical architecture for the nuancing of the time-locked mechanisms and processes of the L2 system. The received construal of DST in L2 studies ...

• Towards a dynamic systems approach to the development of language and music - Theoretical foundations and methodological issues 

  Marin, Manuela M.; Peltzer-Karpf, Annemarie (2009)

  Music and language are considered as distinct auditory systems that serve different communicative uses. From the perspective of infants rather inexperienced with their native musical and linguistic systems, these differences ...

• Rethinking Vygotskian Cultural-Historical Theory in Light of Pepperian Root Metaphor Theory : Dynamic Interplay of the Organicism and Contextualism 

  Karimi Aghdam, Saeed (S. Karger AG, 2016)

  This article examines Vygotskian cultural-historical theory by putting it into dialogue with Stephen Pepper's root metaphor theory. I focus on Vygotsky's insistence on the dialectical unity of the phylogenetic and ontogenetic ...