Assignment 4 2026
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Due date: 10 September 2026
QUESTION 1: PROCESS APPROACH TO WRITING, ZPD AND
SCAFFOLDING
Selected genre and classroom context
Relationship between Scaffolding and the ZPD
For this discussion I use a Grade 9 English First Additional Language class in a
Gauteng township school, where learners write a narrative essay about a challenge
faced by a young person in their community. The process approach is suitable
because CAPS requires planning, drafting, revising, editing, proofreading and
presenting rather than treating the first attempt as the final product (Department of
Basic Education [DBE], 2011). The Zone of Proximal Development is the space
between what a learner can do independently and what becomes possible with