Role of ZPD, SLT and TBLT in the Target Language Teaching and Learning
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This study aims to discuss how to practice learning theories- ZPD, SLT and TBLT in classroom teaching. It attempts to underpin the basic ideas of the theories combined with practice to understand, explain, analyze, and anticipate how students learn the contents better and retain longer.Thus, an overview of three theories is given to ensure learners’ easy access to the opportunity of gaining meaningful learning experiences in the target language. Lesson incorporated into this study is selected from Hons First Year English course taught at the National University (NU), Bangladesh. It acts as a model of lesson planning based on learning theories to infer and critically analyze the findings of student-focused teaching with depth of learning for critical thinking and problem solving. The findings of the study revealed that the direct use of learning theories enforce language practice through the process of bilateral task-based activities in the real-life classroom context.
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