Scaffolding language, scaffolding learning : teaching second language learners in the mainstream classroom / Pauline Gibbons ; foreword by Jim Cummins.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 153-158) and index.

Foreword / Jim Cummins -- 1. Scaffolding Language and Learning -- 2. Classroom Talk: Creating Contexts for Language Learning -- 3. From Speaking to Writing in the Content Classroom -- 4. Writing in a Second Language Across the Curriculum: An Integrated Approach -- 5. Reading in a Second Language -- 6. Listening: An Active and Thinking Process -- 7. Learning Language, Learning Through Language, and Learning About Language: Developing an Integrated Curriculum.

"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."--BOOK JACKET.

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