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‘Putting scaffolding to work: the contribution of scaffolding in articulating ESL education’

, and . Prospect, vol. 20 (no. 1): pp. 6–30. (2005)

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ABSTRACT In this paper we report on outcomes from recent research in which we have worked with the metaphor of ‘scaffolding’ to address questions about the nature of English as a Second Language (ESL) education. This work has involved a cyclical process: first, of drawing on developments in sociocultural theories of learning and on systemic linguistics in order to analyse and articulate the kinds of pedagogical practices that support ESL learners in their engagement with mainstream curricula and, second, in analysing pedagogical practices to build a more robust and enriched model of scaffolding as a way of further informing pedagogical practices. Our major purpose in this paper is to present the model of scaffolding that was developed from the research.

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