The Role of Imitation In Engliah Language Teaching

The educational concept of the zone of proximal development of the Russian psychologist Lev S. Vygotsky (1896-1934) has been applied in a number of language studies that showsthe capability of learner with equal levels of mental development to learn under a teacher's guidance enhances. Vygotsky addresses the role that communication and imitation play in development learning and further explains that children can imitate a variety of actions that go well beyond the limits of their own capabilities. Learning by imitation presents a rich domain for teaching and learning via interactions. Imitation even in its simple forms is a faster and more efficient form of acquiring new behaviours than its traditional classical conditioning and reinforcement learning counterparts; in humans it is critical during development and remains an important aspect of social interaction and adaptation throughout life.High school students are cooperated in this study to investigate the role of imitation in ZPD. After dividing the students in to ZPD Imitative and