Seyyed Mohammad Ali Soozandehfar

[ 1 ] - Sociocultural Identity DevelopmentScaffolded byCollaboration-ConduciveStrategies:A Case of an Iranian EFL Writing Class

This investigation postulatesVygotsky’s (1978) concept of zone of proximal development (ZPD) and his related “scaffolding” metaphor as well as Norton’s (2006) principles of sociocultural identity as its theoretical foundation.Thisresearchintends to scrutinizethe socioculturally-oriented mediationalmechanisms utilized in student-student and student-teacher collaborationsin an Iranian EFL writing...