Scaffolding Language, Scaffolding Learning: Teaching Second Language Learners in the Mainstream Classroom

Scaffolding Language, Scaffolding Learning: Teaching Second Language Learners in the Mainstream Classroom Written by Pauline Gibbons Heinemann, 2002, 163 pp. ISBN 0-325-00366-1

Eloquently blending theory and practice, Pauline Gibbons argues for viewing English Language Learners (ELL) as full members of a school community who need linguistically and culturally rich learning environments and teachers who provide an array of scaffolding, not remedial phonics programs and reduced curriculum. Gibbons uses Halliday to argue that language development involves learning to control an increasing range of registers...