Scaffolding Language, Scaffolding Learning: Teaching English Language Learners in the Mainstream Classroom (2e)

The bestselling Scaffolding Language, Scaffolding Learning helped tens of thousands of mainstream elementary teachers ensure that their English language learners became full members of the school community with the language and content skills they needed for success. In the highly anticipated Second Edition, Pauline Gibbons updates her classic text with a multitude of practical ideas for the classroom, supported by the latest research in the field of ELL/ESL.

With clear directions and classroom tested strategies for supporting students’ academic progress, Gibbons shows how the teaching of language can be integrated seamlessly with the teaching of content, and how academic achievement can be boosted without sacrificing our own vision of education to the dictates of knee-jerk accountability. Rich examples of classroom discourse illustrate exactly how the scaffolding process works, while activities to facilitate conversation and higher-level thinking put the latest research on second language learning into action.

Ch. 1: Scaffolding Language and Learning

Ch. 2: Classroom Talk: Creating Contexts for Language Learning

Ch. 3: Collaborative Group Work and Second Language Learning

Ch. 4: From Speaking to Writing in the Content Classroom

Ch. 5: Learning to Write in a Second Language and Culture

Ch. 6: Reading in a Second Language and Culture: Barriers and Bridges

Ch. 7: Listening: An Active and Thinking Process

Ch. 8: Developing an Integrated Curriculum: Learning Language, Learning Through Language, and Learning About Language

PAULINE GIBBONS taught postgraduate and undergraduate TESOL courses at the University of Technology, Sydney, for many years, and is now
an Adjunct Professor at the University of New South Wales, Sydney. She is also an independent EL consultant and her work with teachers has taken her to Hong Kong, Sweden, Laos, Singapore, Indonesia, Thailand, China, South Africa, Marshall Islands, Iran, Germany, UK, and USA. She has published extensively in EL education, including Bridging Discourses in the ESL Classroom: students, teachers and researchers (Continuum, 2006), and two other Heinemann books: Learning to Learn in a Second Language (1993) and English Learners, Academic Literacy and Thinking: Learning in the Challenge Zone (2009).