I returned with more confidence in my Arabic Language skills. I was nervous, as I had to speak English for the first time, daily. In addition, the English that I learned in Egypt was British English, so I was struggling with understanding and talking in the American dialect. For my language learning experiences, I found out the best way to learn a language is through communicating with native speakers in targeted language. This defends Vygotskian theory, the Socio-Cultural Theory, about the development of human cognitive and higher mental function, which argues that the development of human cognitive and higher mental function comes from social interactions and that through participation in social activities requiring cognitive and communicative functions, individuals are drawn into the use of these functions in ways that nurture and “scaffold”
I returned with more confidence in my Arabic Language skills. I was nervous, as I had to speak English for the first time, daily. In addition, the English that I learned in Egypt was British English, so I was struggling with understanding and talking in the American dialect. For my language learning experiences, I found out the best way to learn a language is through communicating with native speakers in targeted language. This defends Vygotskian theory, the Socio-Cultural Theory, about the development of human cognitive and higher mental function, which argues that the development of human cognitive and higher mental function comes from social interactions and that through participation in social activities requiring cognitive and communicative functions, individuals are drawn into the use of these functions in ways that nurture and “scaffold”