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December 2016  \n Australian International Academic Centre, Australia  \n|  |  |  |\n| --- | --- | --- |\n|  |  |  |\n| Flourishing Creativity & Literacy |  |  |\n\nSociocultural Theory and its Role in the Development of  \nLanguage Pedagogy  \nAbdul Hameed Panhwar (Corresponding author)  \nInstitute of English Language and Literature, University of Sindh, Pakistan  \n[E-mail: marcius02@live.com](E-mail: marcius02@live.com)  \nSanaullah Ansari  \nInstitute of English Language and Literature, University of Sindh, Pakistan  \nE-mail: [sunnyhala3@gmail.com](sunnyhala3@gmail.com)  \nKomal Ansari  \nInstitute of English Language and Literature, University of Sindh, Pakistan  \nDoi:10 .7575/aiac.alls.v.7n.6p.183  \nURL: [http://dx.doi.org/10.7575/aiac.alls.v.7n.6p.183](http://dx.doi.org/10.7575/aiac.alls.v.7n.6p.183)  \nReceived: 08/09/2016  \nAccepted: 19/11/2016  \nAbstract  \nThis paper reviews the literature on Vygotskian theory of Socio-cultural learning and constructivist approach to teaching and learning and attempts to relate the socio-cultural theory to constructivism. The purpose of the paper is to investigate the ways socio-cultural theory helps to develop language pedagogies. Critical analysis of the literature on the socio-cultural theory suggests that the theory has potential for forming new context-oriented language teaching-learning pedagogies which can help teachers in maximising the effectiveness of their teaching and their student ’s learning. Thereview further suggests that the language pedagogies and activities developed from the sociocultural theory of Vygotsky may not only improve students’ language skills, but it also has potential to develop students’ cognition. Since theory promotes more and more communication of students with each other through scaffolding, that is, the Zone of Proximal development (ZPD) in Vygotsky’s language. Thus, the theory directly points towards the promotion of student-centred learning by establishing learner autonomy.  \nKeywords: socio-cultural theory, language, constructivism, pedagogies, students  \n1. Introduction  \nThe words of Potter Stewart, US Supreme Court Justice more accurately define the socio-cultural approach when he said he would not endeavour to define obscenity without seeing it himself (Gewirtz, 1996) . His words highlight the fact that in spite of the complexity in defining some specific aspects of human experience, they can be identified and acknowledged within a particular socio-cultural and historical context by researchers. In the same way, language teaching-learning approaches have been the victim of extreme general academic theorizing. Instead of defining and applying language activities contextually in practical ways, they are theoretically explained and originally applied without any socio-cultural modifications (Byrnes, 2000) . The socio-cultural research goes beyond traditional academic practices and disciplines. It creates links between culture and cognition with the help of situational and contextual activities, events and tasks. Examining and observing a student as an individual being separated from the culture and community would be like missing the most important pages of his/ her life. Culture and cognition are the creators of each other; therefore united they work effectively (Vygotsky, 1897; 1936; Gregory, 2002) .  \nTheories are extraordinary discoveries for learning environments which help people understand the phenomenon, but they should begin inductively from a context rather than deductively from a theory. Vygotskian theoretical perspective emphasises that organised methods of empirical research should be used to understand subjective, inter-subjective and distributed nature of learning and mental development. On a broader pragmatic level, hypothetically principled examination and analysis of outstandingly fruitful learning experiences and understandings may also be helpful to comprehend and ","cbCaiqamdk1fAMxE","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCaiqamdk1fAMxE","pdf",185431,"English","# Abstract\n# 1. Introduction\n## Sociocultural context and language teaching\n# 2. Background\n## Vygotsky’s stages of intellectual development\n# 3. 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