This website has been designed for post-primary English Language Support and mainstream subject teachers and their students. On this site you will find a comprehensive range of activities which will help you to access all subject areas of the Junior Certificate curriculum. These activities can be downloaded and printed and are suitable for both classroom activity and self-study.
On November 26, 1857, Swiss linguist and semiotician Ferdinand de Saussure was born. His ideas laid the foundation for many significant developments both in linguistics and semiotics in the 20th century. Moreover, de Saussure is widely considered one of the fathers of 20th-century linguistics and together with Charles Sanders Peirce one of two major fathers of semiotics.
This article describes how scaffolding can be successful and goes into conclude that there are 6 key ingredients for scaffolding learning: recruitment, reduction in the degree of freedom, direct maintenance, marking for critical features, frustration control, demonstration