James Lantolf

The Pennsylvania State University

Participates in 2 items

Sessions in which James Lantolf participates

Tuesday 29 August, 2017

Time Zone: (GMT-05:00) Eastern Time (US & Canada)

1:30 PM

SYMP 079 - The magic of signs: Creative coordination of transformative activity

2 hours, 1:30 PM - 3:30 PM

Convention Center - 204 A

Symposium (Symp)

Igor M. Arievitch, College of Staten Island, The City University of New York, USA (Participant)

Dr. Anna Stetsenko, The Graduate Center, City University of New York (CUNY) (New York, NY, United States) (Participant)

Dr. Jeremy Sawyer, The Graduate Center, City University of New York (CUNY) (Moderator)

Dr. Peter Jones, Sheffield Hallam University (Participant)

James Lantolf, The Pennsylvania State University (Participant)

Signs seem to have an almost magical power to enhance and transform human psychological abilities, as even mainstream psychology is now discovering...

3:00 PM

Language proficiency as symbol-making capacity: The case of a second language speaker

30 minutes, 3:00 PM - 3:30 PM

Part of: SYMP 079 - The magic of signs: Creative coordination of transformative activity

Paper in a Symposium (Symp)

James Lantolf, The Pennsylvania State University (Participant)

As is well known, a fundamental principle of Vygotsky’s theory is that humans mediate much of their social and psychological behavior via the meani...