“…The basic idea that effective instruction is very different than that found in the default classroom, is represented in the recent important work done by Ann Brown, Reuven Feuerstein, Anne Marie Palinscar, Barbara Rogoff, Addison Stone, Tharp and Gallimore, Wertsch, and others, all of whom emphasize that excellent instruction involves social interactions sensitive to the child's level of functioning and cognitive needs. I believe we need a term to refer to student-sensitive communication process-the intellectualization process (Turnure, 1967(Turnure, , 1976(Turnure, , 1985(Turnure, , 1987. Wertsch (1985) has reported that Vygotsky had a similar conceptualization of intellectualization, although Wertsch still refers to 'the socialization of mental functioning' (1991: p. 86) when describing the social agentive aspect of cognitive instruction.…”