The role of individual knowledge construction in socially mediated instructional activities is examined. We argue that effective learning in social situations involves processes of communicational inference and knowledge consolidation. An analysis of these processes highlights the continuing need to incorporate individual learner characteristics in a full specification of the dynamics of effective socially mediated instruction.
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