Scaffolding language, scaffolding learning
Subtitle: teaching second language learners in the mainstream classroom
By: Pauline Gibbons ; foreword by Jim Cummins.
Publisher: Heinemann
Published: 2002
Place of publication: Portsmouth, NH
Language: eng
Number of pages: 165
Subjects: English language -- Study and teaching -- Foreign speakers.; Interdisciplinary approach in education.; Second language acquisition.; Language and education.
Description: "How does a mainstream elementary classroom teacher with little or no specialized ESL training meet the challenge of teaching linguistically diverse students? Pauline Gibbons suggests how: integrate the teaching of English with the content areas of the regular curriculum. What's more, she shows how in this practical resource book."

"Gibbons begins with a strong theoretical underpinning for her practice, drawing on a functional model of language, sociocultural theories of learning, and current research on second-language development. After supporting her view that the regular curriculum offers the best language-learning environment for young ESL students, Gibbons demonstrates the ways in which content areas provide a context for the teaching of English skills, from speaking and listening to reading and writing. These skills can be integrated in the learning of diverse subjects as Gibbons illustrates with a wide range of teaching and learning activities across the curriculum, supplemented with programming and assessment formats and checklists."--Jacket.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 153-158) and index.
Table of contents: label: one
title: Scaffolding language and learning; title: Classroom talk: creating contexts for language learning; title: From speaking to writing in the content classroom; title: Writing in a second language across the curriculum: an integrated approach; title: Reading in a second language; title: Listening: an active and thinking process; title: Learning language, learning through language, and learning about language: developing an integrated curriculum.