Scaffolding Language, Scaffolding Learning: Teaching Second Language Learners in the Mainstream Classroom

Pauline Gibbons taught postgraduate and undergraduate TESOL courses at the University of Technology, Sydney, for many years, and is now an Adjunct Professor at the University of New South Wales, Sydney. She is also an Independent EL consultant and her work with teachers has taken her to Hong Kong, Sweden, Laos, Singapore, Indonesia, Thailand, show more China, South Africa, Marshall Islands, Iran, Germany, the UK, and the USA. She has published extensively in EL education, including Bridging Discourses in the ESL Classroom; Students, Teachers, and Researchers (2006), and two other Heinemann books: Learning to Learn in a Second Language (1993) and English Learners, Academic Literacy, and Thinking: Learning in the Challenge Zone(2009). show less