I believe the social interactionist view is best for oral language development. The most common sense reason I picked the social interactionist is because children learn to speak because of their environment and how the people that are around them speak. I believe children thrive on guidance from a teacher or parent. I think this way because new preschoolers do not know how to attend school. They do not know how to do simple tasks, like walk in line, raise their hand to speak, take turns, share toys, and many other random skills that adults would not think about. A teacher teaches these tasks, or in this case, a skilled partner, and the students learn them over time. On the first day of school, some of the students did not know how to efficiently put on their backpacks and when I saw the student struggling to be so, it caught me off guard. If myself or another teacher would not have guided the student to do it correctly, they would still not be struggling to put it on.
This theory focuses on collaborating and the importances of engaging with others. This also puts children in “real world” situations, causing them to use problem-solving skills and hold a deeper understanding because of it. The theory is built on problem-solving, building social skills, active learning, collaborating, and much more. Negative assertions about this theory are realized by a skilled teacher to learn from and does not involve much structure. Before there was a proper way to teach oral language, people learned to communicate by other people and using pictures. Babies communicate to their parents through different cooing sounds and even hand signals they may establish so use as communication. Older humans still use this way by social interactions and building communities. They learn through social interactions by learning from one another, or sharing knowledge. The internalization factor stood out to me in the reading. The example the book gave, was when a student asks for the same book to be read instead of a new one. This reminds me about Pete the Cat White Shoes book and how all students can remember the “goodness, no” portion.
The most famous theorist associated with social interactionist theory is Lev Vygotsky. Vygotsky is a Russian psychologist known for the work he did with social development theory. Vygotsky created the concept of ZPD (zone of proximal development). The ZPD is the difference between what a child can do alone compared to what they can do when collaborating with others. The social interactionist theory was started around the 20th century. This was a big time for social and psychological changes. Overall, the theory is still used today in learning environments. It is used by parents being involved in children's education and having social support outside of school, which is thought to be an important part of a child's development.