In this article Halliday, questions the approach of language acquisition (syntax)with construction/semantics. He highlights that language is learnt through meaningful interaction with other people and making sense of the world in which we live is achieved through language. They key goal of interaction/making meaning is functional and communicative.
This paper looks at how scaffolding can be applied in bilingual EFL contexts. Three features of scaffolding which are discussed at length are priming, prompting and dialoguing