EXPLORING CONSTRUCTIVIST LEARNING THEORY AND ITS APPLICATIONS IN TEACHING ENGLISH

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INTRODUCTION The constructivist approach to learning is based largely on the work of Jean Piaget and Lev Educational theories guide the pedagogical Vygotsky. Constructivism is based on the premise practices in the course. Constructivist Learning that we do not all come to the learning Theory, a psychological theory, has had significant environment as blank slates: we all have implications in educational practice. experiences and beliefs that have influenced our Constructivism is one of the leading paradigms of perceptions of the world and of a topic. learning. As an educational theory which focuses Constructivism holds that prior knowledge helps on the role of learners in building their own in the present construction of new knowledge. knowledge through respect for their knowledge, Constructivists also believe that the act of learning experiences, and interaction with the occurs not just in the mind of the learner, as occurs environment, constructivism is highly respected. in behaviorism, but that it also occurs in the Situated Learning, based on constructivism, holds community (social constructivism) and in the that knowing is a process based on experience and environment or context at large (situational actions. Situated learning has become a way of constructivism). (David, Anamaria, & Lavinia, positioning learning in specific social, cultural, and 2010) Therefore, to understand cognitively institutional contexts (Deubsch, 2011). https://www.theamericanjournals.com/index.php/tajssei 7 THE USA JOURNALS THE AMERICAN JOURNAL OF SOCIAL SCIENCE AND EDUCATION INNOVATIONS (ISSN- 2689-100X) VOLUME 06 ISSUE08 demanding activities, one needs to look not only at various personalities that have contributed to the the process of settling and mastery but also at the development, contrasting and broadening the process of enculturation and immersion in a nature of perspectives. This part deals with a discipline. synthesis and comparison of the views of these personalities. To sum up, the theoretical 1.1. Key Principles and Concepts contributions made in describing the nature and Key Principles and Concepts. In this section, we varieties of constructivist learning can be will explore the basic tenets of constructivist summarized in three models, which are 'logical' learning theory. This will help us understand the which originated from Piaget's viewpoint, 'socio- theoretical framework providing the basis on cultural' which originated from Vygotsky's which today's teaching and learning ideologies perspective and 'psychological pragmatism' which rest. Fundamentally, contemporary education is originated from Dewey's view. Although there is a constructed on the principle that gaining considerable degree of overlap in the models knowledge is a process of internalizing and "re- descriptions and the elements of interest in the creating" knowledge instead of receiving it as a phenomena of constructivist learning, the main finished product to be stored and subsequently difference between them and their contribution is reproduced. This is characteristic of the the answer to the question 'where does the main constructivist perspective that underlies our interest lie in understanding the nature of understanding of teaching English at schools constructivist learning'. When we answered the today. question of constructivism from the teacher's If you have taken a close look at the basic principles viewpoint, these contributions emerged. that lay the theoretical framework of teaching and The Logical Perspective of Constructivism learning in English accessible on online platforms Theoretical Background. According to or discussed in various journal articles, you might contemporary constructivist theory, learning is have noticed that the foundations of such theories conceptualized as a process of constructing lie in Constructivist Learning Theory. (Amin, knowledge and transforming information in Mohamad, & Kadray, 2018) But what is response to incongruity. This perspective adopts a Constructivist Learning Theory? Kearsley neatly logical approach to constructivist learning theory. summarizes the key propositions of Constructivist Jean Piaget, a Swiss psychologist, and philosopher Learning Theory, from which we can distil the first to extensively elaborate constructivist essence of von Glaserfeld's comments and ensuing principles. In his view, knowledge is organized in constructivist paradigms. According to Kearsley, hierarchical structures of thematic meanings. constructivist perspectives indicate that learning Piaget discusses how learners adapt to new is: "not surface revelatory, but the kind of probing, experiences and make sense of the world through rather, that seeks relationships, tests the meanings the process of assimilation and accommodation. of these relationships, and questions their validity" Piaget formulated two main opposing theories, 2. Historical Development of Constructivist which are the theory of assimilation and the theor