![]() ![]() Students experience a supportive learning environment.Here are some benefits of scaffolded instruction: Scaffolding techniques when used strategically and correctly does take time, but it is well worth it! Through scaffolding, English Language Learners are given the opportunity and the necessary support to acquire language while meeting rigorous academic standards. A scaffold is a temporary framework that is put up for support and access to meaning and is taken away when the student feels success and masters tasks, concepts, and, in this case, language acquisition. Scaffolding in the classroom consists of helpful interactions between the teacher and the student that enable the student to do something beyond what he could do independently. As young children are first learning to speak a language, their parents and caregivers provide informal frameworks that facilitate the children’s learning. He used the term to describe young children’s oral language acquisition. Scaffolding theory was first introduced in the late 1950s by Jerome Bruner, a cognitive psychologist. This type of instruction minimizes failure, which decreases frustration, especially for students acquiring a new language. Additionally, scaffolding presents opportunities for students to be successful before they move into unfamiliar territory. When the learning is scaffolded students are constantly building on prior knowledge and forming associations among new information, concepts, and language acquisition. Scaffolding has been praised for its ability to engage most learners. ![]() Teachers are supporting content and language acquisition simultaneously. When supporting English Language Learners during instruction we must consider that the instruction is two-fold.
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