Playfulness in Classroom Interactions

This paper uses Vygotsky’s sociocultural approach to examine collaborative language play in an ESL class. While play is commonly considered to be peripheral to or distracting from the learning process (cf. Cook, 2000; Pomerantz and Bell, 2007; Swann and Maybin, 2007), play in Vygotsky’s view is esse...

Ubiquitous Learning: An International Journal

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