The article studies key elements of the sociocultural genome law by analyzing changes it has undergone under influence digitalization. author highlights following among main directions this influence: change in parties eligible for a legal relationship, since "digital personalities" have recently become one them, and their activity is on rise; emergence algorithmdriven quasi-legislative regulat...

2. What does research say about language and language learning? In addition to foreign language learners and educators, scholars from many disciplines such as linguistics, psychology, anthropology and etc. have been interested in and contributed to the field of foreign language acquisition. Let us start with some general review of the relevant issues and then devote the major part of our time t...

Previous literature presents there is a demand to teach adult learners English due to the amount of non-English speaking citizens. Therefore, educators have responded to the need for programs that teach adult learners English. English as a Second Language (ESL) classes help adults by providing a foundation of comprehension for the English language, this foundation helps adults navigate their li...

While ‘voice’ is frequently invoked in discussions of pupils’ agency and empowerment, less attention has been paid to the dialogic dynamics of children’s voices and the sociocultural features shaping their emergence. Drawing on linguistic ethnographic research involving recent recordings of ten and eleven year-old children’s spoken language experience across the school day, this article examine...

As craft production is a social enterprise, this document outlines the educational role of sociocultural theory within craft communities. Craft practitioners, whether they are aware of it or not, form themselves into groups which serve as their community and assist in the sharing of knowledge; relevant to this social clustering are the concepts of situated learning, cognitive apprenticeship and...

The use of smokeless tobacco, especially paan and gutka, is prevalent in Southeast Asian countries (1). No exact rate for the use of these products in Iran is available. According to the study by Honarmand et al. 11.4% of male students from universities of Zahedan City in Southeast of Iran were current users of smokeless tobacco (2). These products contain lime, areca-nut and tobacco (3). Evide...

The purpose of this chapter is to present a sociocultural perspective on the study of moral development, and to review theoretical and empirical work on moral development that has been conducted under the rubric of this perspective. This perspective has emerged over the course of the last decade or so, in response to a variety of challenges to prevailing theories of moral development—in particu...