General genetic law
-Janet’s law
-“We become ourselves through
others”
Indexicality out of meaning coconstruction
• Wells’ example of ‘development of
indexicality’
• The rationale lies not in the activity as
such but in the process of intention
sharing (co-construction of meaning)
• The direction goes from concrete roles
dominance to abstract meaning
dominance
Empirical study 1
;how different type of play create
crisis
• Micro genetic evidence
• Same children-different play
Role play data
speaker
talk
지선
What's your name?
independent initiate
은민
My name is 박은민. What's your name 파
란색(blue) T-shirt?
response. Initiate
광일
My name is 광일. How are you?
response. Initiate
한울
I'm fine. You are?
response. Bound initiate
광일
I'm tired
response
은민
Why?
bound initiate
광일
Because eleven at sleeping
response
광일
How about you?
bound initiate
한울
Because I'm sleep twelve O'clock..
response
광일
You are fine 이래매~(laugh)
bound response
Rule play data
speaker
talk
은민
School 교재원 flower 심는 거 재미있었어?
independent exchange
initiate
광일
Yes. It was great.
independent exchange
response
광일
How about you?
bound initiate
은민
뭐라고?(What?)
bound response
광일
How about you?
bound response
은민
몰라 몰라.(dunno, dunno.)
bound follow up treated
as bound initiate
광일
너 어땠냐고, 너. (how about you, you.)
bound response
은민
Good good good very very good good. I
three. 맹희연과 함께 three flower 심었다.
(I planted three flowers with 맹희연)
response
How relations between roles and
rules change?
• Vygotsky; Ontogenetic explication
• Just like child’s dominant action get
implicit when the originally peripheral
‘meaning’ get prevailing
• Play war ⇒ chess
Empirical study 2
;How personal point of view turn
into other’s point of view
• A
저 바다를 보면 왕자는 기분이 좋을까 슬플까 (When he sees
that ocean, is does the prince feel good or bad?)
• TY 슬퍼요 (He’s sad.)
• A
불가사리가 좋아요? (He likes the Pulgasari?)
• TY 네 (Yes.)
• A
왜요? (Why?)
• TY 살아났으니까요 (Because it saved his life.)
• A 불가사리는 착해요 나빠요? (So is the Pulgasari good or evil?)
• TY 착해요 (He’s good.)
• A
왜요? (Why?)
• TY 사람들을 도와줬으니까요 (Because he helps people, you
know!)
Morality Without Questions
• A
사람들 뭐 하고 있어요? [observer] (What are the people
doing?)
• TY 춤 추구요, 밥 먹구요 [observer] (They are dancing, and
eating)
• A
또 [observer] (And?)
• TY 신나하고 있어요 [character] (They are excited.)
• A
TY이 이건 뭐 먹는 줄 알아? [observer] (TY, can you guess
what they are eating?)
• TY 풀? [observer] (Grass?) 어떻게 해… [reader/viewer] (How
can they do that?)
• TY 왜 물에서 자요? [reader/viewer] (Why are they sleeping in
the water?)
• A
집도 없고, 그치? [character] (They don’t have any house,
do they?)
• TY 그래서 물 안에서 자나? [character] (Is that why they sleep
in the water?)
• A
응, 동굴. [observer] (Yeah, in a cave.)
• TY 어떻게 해. 우리는 여기서 편안히 지내는데… [reader/viewer]
(How can that be? And here we are, living so comfortably!)
SpeculationHow foreign language learning
creates ZPD
• By putting the end point of mother
tongue learning to the forefront and
(almost) starting point to the end.
• (learning leads development)
Applicationexplicating development of
speech
• Infancy – Peripheral status
• Early childhood – central
• School age - Peripheral