CHILD DEVELOPMENT PEDAGOGY

GROWTH DEVELOPMENT CHILD

LANGUAGE ACQUISITION THEORIES

Question [CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
Which of the following statements is true about Zone of Proximal Development (ZPD)
A
ZPD is the area where the child could not achieve with adult guidance or by working with “a more fully developed child
B
ZPD is the area between the child’s current performance and the level of performance that the child could not achieve with adult guidance or by working with “a more fully developed child
C
ZPD is the area where the child could achieve with adult guidance or by working with “a more fully developed child
D
ZPD is the area between the child’s current performance (the problems the child can solve independently without any support) and the level of performance that the child could achieve with adult guidance or by working with “a more fully developed child”
Explanation: 

Detailed explanation-1: -The Zone of Proximal Development is defined as the space between what a learner can do without assistance and what a learner can do with adult guidance or in collaboration with more capable peers.

Detailed explanation-2: -Hence it could be concluded that ‘It is the upper limit of a task that a learner can successfully perform independently’ is not true about ‘Zone of Proximal Development’.

Detailed explanation-3: -The zone of proximal development is best described as: Where interrelated sets of actions, memories, thoughts or strategies may be employed to predict and understand the environment.

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