Pauline Gibbons (2008) Research to investigate what 'intellectual quality' is, and how this is reflected in classroom activity and practise, with reference to students learning through the medium of English as an L2. Based on SCLA, with emphasis on considering how pedagogy can be redefined in terms of sociocultural conceptual frameworks and analytical tools.
What does knowing a word entail? difference in undertanding depts vs width of vocabulary knowldege, using polysemosity of words to instruct, different appraoches to vacabulary instruction: using L1, read alounds, making connection with L1,
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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 article explores the development of innovative approaches to the education of adults and young people in Ireland. The author begins by describing briefly the context in which those who are involved in adult education are working and some of the changes that have affected the development of the adult education service in the country.
Over a period of two months, as an integral part of their ESL homework, groups of students designed and put together, through a series of successive drafts, a description of their secondary school which they had joined from primary school a few months previously.