Applicability of Vygotsky´s Contributions to the Teaching-Learning of English as a Foreign Language

La Aplicabilidad de los Aportes de Vygotsky a la Enseñanza-Aprendizaje del Inglés como Lengua Extranjera

Abstract

Teaching a foreign language is a difficult task to accomplish. Its level of complexity raises according to the context it occurs and the students’ ages. That´s why, it is a concern to the context of the School of Foreign Language Education from the University of Pedagogical Sciences Enrique José Varona; specifically, to the research project “The improvement of the teaching of English in Primary, High School and Higher Education”. Its objective is to communicate how to apply Vygotsky´s contributions to the teaching-learning process of English. To accomplish the objective, some principles and activities that can be used under the grounds of his theory are shown. Methods, such as analysis-synthesis, induction-deduction, document study, and non-structured interview have been used, allowing to systematize the theory in question and take a pedagogical stance in this respect. The theoretical findings let the authors reveal how useful the historical-cultural theory is to the teaching-learning process of English as a foreign language.