Scaffolding for Multilingual Learners in Elementary and Secondary Schools

Luciana C. de Oliveira, "Scaffolding for Multilingual Learners in Elementary and Secondary Schools"
English | ISBN: 1032020474 | 2022 | 238 pages | PDF | 4 MB
This insightful and timely volume addresses how scaffolding can be used to support multilingual learners to amplify their opportunities for learning. As a dynamic educational process, scaffolding facilitates responsive and adaptive teaching and learning; addresses students' needs; increases student autonomy; and promotes adaptive, high-level learning without simplifying instruction. Section I covers the theoretical grounding and reconceptualizations of scaffolding. Section II offers concrete examples and case studies from varied classroom contexts. Section III provides a window into professional development to discuss the work of pre-service and in-service teachers, and how they develop their understandings and practices of teaching multilingual learners.