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Parental Scaffolding during Book-Sharing Predicts Child General Intelligence
While much variance in general intelligence or g is genetic, a substantial environmental component suggests a possible role for parent-child...
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Moving Down the Slope: from Scaffolding to Autonomous Mastery
In this article, we introduce the notion of de-scaffolding that covers the process of releasing the autonomously develo** person from the social...
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Unpacking Chinese EFL Students’ Academic Engagement and Psychological Well-Being: The Roles of Language Teachers’ Affective Scaffolding
Over the past decade, there has appeared a surge of research interest in language learners’ academic engagement and psychological well-being as...
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The Relationship Between Teacher-Student Rapport and EFL Learners’ Engagement in Online Scaffolding Setting
Given the breakout of the Covide-19 pandemic, online L2 learning has become more popular than ever so traditional in-person classroom instruction is...
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Scaffolding Human Champions: AI as a More Competent Other
Artificial intelligence (AI) has surpassed humans in a number of specialised intellectual activities—chess and Go being two of many examples. Amongst...
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The Development of Accuracy and Fluency in Second Language (L2) Speaking Related to Self-Efficacy Through Online Scaffolding: A Latent Growth Curve Modeling Analysis
This longitudinal study made the first attempt to employ Latent Growth Curve Modeling to analyze the development of L2 speaking accuracy and fluency...
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Activation of Content-Schemata for Scaffolding L2 Writing: Voices from a Turkish Context
It has been observed that Turkish university students suffer in L2 writing when they lack background knowledge about the writing topic. Triggered by...
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The Comparative Effects of Teacher Versus Peer-Scaffolding on EFL Learners’ Incidental Vocabulary Learning and Reading Comprehension: A Socio-Cultural Perspective
Drawing on sociocultural theory, and multiple empirical studies conducted on the effectiveness of scaffolding on second or foreign language learning,...
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Scaffolding via Group-dynamic Assessment to Positively Affect Motivation, Learning Anxiety, and Willingness to Communicate: A Case Study of High School Students
Although a mass of studies has demonstrated the effectiveness of scaffolding through group-dynamic assessment (G-DA) in fostering English as a...
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Monitoring, Scaffolding, Intervening, and Overriding: Adult Children’s Perspectives on Supporting Older Parents
When older parents experience age-related functional limitations, adult children may begin to monitor and try to control their parents’ behavior....
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Facilitating Episodic Simulation in Anxiety: Role of Sensory Scaffolding and Scenario Modality
Cognitive bias modification of interpretation style (CBM-I) is a family of cognitive training programs that seek to reduce anxious thinking by...
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The effect of Bloom-based activities and Vygotskian scaffolding on Iranian EFL learners’ use of the speech act of request
The purpose of this study was to determine if Bloom-based Interlanguage Pragmatics (ILP) instruction could enhance EFL learners’ use of the speech...
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Embodiment of Going Downhill: Scaffolding of Movement Experience
Psychology needs to view the human being in its full reality—which is constant movement. This is rarely taken in account in theories that usually...
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Emergent Imputative Symbols: In One Word
This research uncovers the role of semiotic scaffolding and symbolic imputations in relation to the hyper-generalized construct of a signified value...
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Learning motor actions via imagery—perceptual or motor learning?
It is well accepted that repeatedly imagining oneself acting without any overt behavior can lead to learning. The prominent theory accounting for why...
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Ausubel’s meaningful learning re-visited
This review provides a critique of David Ausubel’s theory of meaningful learning and the use of advance organizers in teaching. It takes into account...