Teachers Designing Classroom Curriculum through the Lens of Cultural-Historical Activity Theory

Facilitating and Assessing Academic Writing to Graduate Students in a Pilot English for Academic Purposes Course: An Activity Theoretical Perspective

“…Activity theory has gained solid ground in interventionist studies and its influence on the field of education—particularly on learning English as an additional language—is becoming strong (Basturkmen & Lewis, 2002; Gedera & Williams, 2016; Harness & Yamagata-Lynch, 2016; Lantolf, 2000; Lockley, 2016). A consideration of curriculum development at school levels was undertaken by Lockley (2016) where activity theory was used as a theoretical framework to enrich understandings of “how teachers act professionally to develop local curriculum” (p. 196). Basturkmen and Lewis (2002) also used activity theory as a framework to investigate individual learner perspectives of success, which they argue share “limited overlap” (p. 41).…”

Development of General Communicative Learning Skills: Going Through Lesson Stages

“…Leontev were widely spread in Russia in the 20th century, and activity theory has become the foundation for reforming education in the 21 century [1]. The efforts to apply activity theory in actual practice of teaching have made scholars and experts work out some intermediate concepts [2]. The Russian research school headed by A.G. Asmolov has made a great contribution to the theoretical development of the principals put into the present standard of education [3].…”