https://padlet.com/berg1207/s3yn8545j24w Read and reflect on each of the quotes below. Then select 3-4 and comment on the relevance of each quote or offer your reaction/thoughts. Whenever possible, make connections to other readings and data from this week. You should click "comment" below each quote to add your comments. You are also welcome to add a favorite quote from this week's readings or question you have using the pink + sign. (ESL 8130 F19) en-us 2017-03-22 15:51:10 UTC 2020-02-07 02:54:16 UTC hello@padlet.com https://padlet-assets.s3.amazonaws.com/icons/Lightdecrease.png berg1207 https://padlet.com/berg1207/s3yn8545j24w/wish/161869274 "Scaffolding...is not simply another word for help.  It is a special kind of help that assists learners to move toward new skills, concepts, or levels of understanding.  Scaffolding is thus the temporary assistance by which a teacher helps a learner know how to do something, so that the learner will later be able to complete a similar task alone. … It can be argued that it is only when teacher support – or scaffolding – is needed that learning will take place, since the learner is then likely to be working within his/her ZPD" (Gibbons, 2002, p. 10).]]> 2017-03-22 15:56:09 UTC https://padlet.com/berg1207/s3yn8545j24w/wish/161869274 berg1207 https://padlet.com/berg1207/s3yn8545j24w/wish/161869474 "Second language learners are both learning a new language and learning other things through the medium of the language.  If we accept the premise that external dialogue is the major resource for the development of thinking and that interaction is also integral to language learning, then it follows that we must consider very seriously the nature of the talk in which learners are engaged in the classroom" (Gibbons, 2002, p. 8-9).]]> 2017-03-22 15:56:45 UTC https://padlet.com/berg1207/s3yn8545j24w/wish/161869474 berg1207 https://padlet.com/berg1207/s3yn8545j24w/wish/161869553 "The ZPD is premised on the view that development has both a social and a psychological dimension. The social dimension is where the ‘buds’ of learning grow and, when the functions acquired through assistance become autonomous, they develop into ‘flowers’. These constitute a stable, new zone that makes possible the learning of still further skills" (Ellis, 2008, p. 532).]]> 2017-03-22 15:56:58 UTC https://padlet.com/berg1207/s3yn8545j24w/wish/161869553 berg1207 https://padlet.com/berg1207/s3yn8545j24w/wish/161869638 "The language acquisition device is located in the interaction that takes place between speakers rather than inside their heads. That is, acquisition occurs in rather than as a result of interaction" (Ellis, 2008, p. 526).]]> 2017-03-22 15:57:12 UTC https://padlet.com/berg1207/s3yn8545j24w/wish/161869638 berg1207 https://padlet.com/berg1207/s3yn8545j24w/wish/161869728 “…language serves not only a communicative function, but is, itself a psychological too” (Swain & Lapkin, 1998, p. 320).]]> 2017-03-22 15:57:25 UTC https://padlet.com/berg1207/s3yn8545j24w/wish/161869728