Scaffolding language, scaffolding learning

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.

subjects: Language and education,  Foreign speakers,  Second language acquisition,  English language,  Study and teaching,  Interdisciplinary approach in education,  Langue seconde,  Interdisciplinarite en education,  Englischunterricht,  Langue d'enseignement,  Etude et enseignement,  Allophones,  Anglais (Langue),  Fremdsprachenunterricht,  Acquisition,  English language, study and teaching, foreign speakers,  English language--study and teaching--foreign speakers,  Pe1128.a2 g48 2002,  428/.0071