Scaffolding language, scaffolding learning : teaching second language learners in the mainstream classroom /
Pauline Gibbons ; foreword by Jim Cummins.
- ix, 165 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Includes bibliographical references (pages 153-158) and index.
Foreword / Scaffolding Language and Learning -- Classroom Talk: Creating Contexts for Language Learning -- From Speaking to Writing in the Content Classroom -- Writing in a Second Language Across the Curriculum: An Integrated Approach -- Reading in a Second Language -- Listening: An Active and Thinking Process -- Learning Language, Learning Through Language, and Learning About Language: Developing an Integrated Curriculum. Jim Cummins -- 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7.
"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.
0325003661 9780325003665
2001007440
English language--Study and teaching--Foreign speakers. Interdisciplinary approach in education Second language acquisition. Language and education