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<p>In educational systems, teachers focus on the involvement of students in learning and on building a solid relationship of trust and collaboration within the foreign language class. To this effect, different methods are consistently used, with clear and adapted learning objectives. The current paper is based on analyses of teaching situations and practices based on the scaffolding method. It discusses strategies used by teachers to improve students’ speaking and writing skills by positioning the concept of scaffolding at the heart of the reflection. Scaffolding, which, basically, involves breaking down large tasks into smaller steps, represents an efficient tool to monitor and guide students to gradually build a linguistic autonomy, and to communicate in writing or orally with little or no help from the teacher.</p>
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In educational systems, teachers focus on the involvement of students in learning and on building a solid relationship of trust and collaboration within the foreign language class. To this effect, different methods are consistently used, with clear and adapted learning objectives. The current paper is based on analyses of teaching situations and practices based on the scaffolding method. It discusses strategies used by teachers to improve students’ speaking and writing skills by positioning the concept of scaffolding at the heart of the reflection. Scaffolding, which, basically, involves breaking down large tasks into smaller steps, represents an efficient tool to monitor and guide students to gradually build a linguistic autonomy, and to communicate in writing or orally with little or no help from the teacher.

Scaffolding Strategies in Overpassing Language Learning Difficulties

Land Forces Academy Review

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In educational systems, teachers focus on the involvement of students in learning and on building a solid relationship of trust and collaboration within the...

Scaffolding Strategies in Overpassing Language Learning Difficulties

Published Online: Sep 27, 2022

Page range: 210 - 215

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/raft-2022-0027

Keywords
scaffolding, skills, speaking, strategies, writing

© 2022 Simona Boştină-Bratu et al., published by Sciendo

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 3.0 License.

Scaffolding Strategies in Overpassing Language Learning Difficulties

Published Online: Sep 27, 2022

Page range: 210 - 215

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/raft-2022-0027

Keywordsscaffolding, skills, speaking, strategies, writing

© 2022 Simona Boştină-Bratu et al., published by Sciendo

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 3.0 License.

Keywords
scaffolding, skills, speaking, strategies, writing