Teachers can structure supports to guide English learners to speak and write using grade-level, discipline-specific language.

Scaffolding refers to a process in which teachers model or demonstrate how to solve a problem, and then step back, offering support to students as needed. It has mainly three features: contingency, ...

The Journal of Classroom Interaction, Vol. 36/37, No. 2/1, THEME ISSUE: Negotiating Meaning in a Community of Learners (Fall 2001/Spring 2002), pp. 29-39 (11 pages) Scaffolding is positioned as a ...

(Link) This work reviews the literature on analogy, introduces a new model of analogy, and presents a series of experiments that test and confirm the utility of this model to describe and predict ...