patricipant: FANNY SEPULVEDDA 

task 1A

he language, is a capacity that the human being managed to develop through its biological evolution seeking to supply the need to communicate. With the passage of time man has perfected the use of language, expressing his ideas, thoughts and feelings through symbols that represent at the same time the history of humanity. The letters have also allowed to develop other abilities to the human being like reading, writing, to argue, to relate ... and perhaps or more important to relate with others, that is to say, Language is a strong foundation for society.

Learning is another capacity of the human being through which he has managed to know the world in which he lives, learning is the ability to understand and create knowledge, acquiring experience and foundation of a thought, thus defining each person behaviors , Values, attitudes, and even learning a trade or work.

Teaching: it is possible to define it as an action and at the same time as a capacity that a person can have, To be able the ability to transmit knowledge to others, teaching is also defined as a gift that only some people possess, by getting others to understand, Understand through appropriate instruction, explanation, the application of an activity, strategy or material that conveys meaningful knowledge to the learner.

TASK 1B

ygotsky's constructivism is a theory centered on how learning develops in a person, through this theory indicates that each individual learns for himself,  "In his conceptualisation of language and its role in mental development, Vygotsky acknowledges  immediate sensations and perceptions, but he does not dwell on them. His is a developmentoriented approach and philosophy" (Davydov, 1995)

learns through his relationship with the environment, ie a child can create his own concepts to Through their experiences with the environment, with other people, and with the situations that arise daily.

Vygotsky tries to explain learning through constructivism in two ways that at the same time go hand in hand these are "individual and social" said this the individual must be in a mental condition to condition his knowledge and restructure new concepts that allow him to understand his Reality but without leaving aside society, it is in the social environment where individuals acquire the experiences sufficient to form their knowledge.

At the same time, Vygotsky acknowledges sensation and perception, it is this language-mediated thinking that he calls the higher mental ability, for the transition from the immediate sensation to thinking is what differs man from animals. His object of investigation – not sounds, not syllables nor marks, but speech units with meanings – reflects an awareness of the living, holistic feature of human as social beings with our social lives.(2005) 

At the same time, the individual is able to contribute to his social environment, that is, he contributes his knowledge and different ways of seeing the reality in which he lives. This is how the theory could be seen as a cycle in which the student, the teacher and the environment actively participate in learning.

It is important to mention the role that language plays in learning and according to Vygotsky is a vital element through which people express thoughts, understand concepts, and facilitates interaction between learner, social environment and knowledge.

According to the above it is possible to say that in the classroom class examples of constructivist learning are:

-generally in the teaching of the English language it is necessary to know and acquire vocabularies, one of the ways to make this activity less complex is to relate the knowledge or experiences of the students in relation to the concepts that they already bring and the similarity with the new knowledge . Associate the blackberry cell phone brand and the name of the blackberry fruit.

- another example is the association of images that refer to the daily actions that are carried out, by flash cart students acquire vocabularies that will later allow them to learn more easily the grammatical structures of English.

Davydov, V. V., translated by Kerr, S. T. (1995). The influence of L. S. Vygotsky on educational theory, research, and practice. Educational Researcher, 24 (3), 12-21. 

(2005)  Charlotte,  Matthews. Vygotsky’s philosophy: Constructivism and its criticisms examined.