Table of Contents

• 1: Scaffolding Language and Learning
• 2: Classroom Talk: Creating Contexts for Language Learning
• 3: Collaborative Group Work and Second Language Learning
• 4: From Speaking to Writing in the Content Classroom
• 5: Learning to Write in a Second Language and Culture
• 6: Reading in a Second Language and Culture: Barriers and Bridges
• 7: Listening: An Active and Thinking Process
• 8: Developing an Integrated Curriculum: Learning Language, Learning Through Language, and Learning About Language

About the Author

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, China, South Africa, Marshall Islands, Iran, Germany, UK, and USA. She has published extensively in EL education, including Bridging Discourses in the ESL Classroom: students, teachers and researchers (Continuum, 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).