"Every Good Learner Uses Resources": Scaffolding Resource Use for Language Learners in the Sheltered English Classroom

• In Event: 81.032 - MTCC Roundtable Session 37
  In Roundtable Session: 81.032-9 - Supporting Multilingual Learners Across Diverse Teaching Contexts

Abstract

This paper examines the ways in which one focal teacher purposefully and strategically used scaffolding to teach students new content and linguistic features that promoted participation and comprehension in the literacy practices of their social studies class. The paper focuses on how embedded in this teacher’s efforts was a focus on helping to grow self-advocating students with basic knowledge of how to support themselves in the classroom. The focal teacher’s interest in teaching students not just content but also in modeling practices and behaviors that would facilitate academic success and self-efficacy was particularly important given the reality that all of the students enrolled had limited and/or interrupted formal schooling backgrounds (SLIFE).

Author

• Rebecca E. Linares, University of Colorado - Boulder