Supporting Language & learning

1. Strategies for supporting output

Activate key terms

Promote noticing

Sentence starters

Substitution tables

Text frames and models

Focus on writing process

Using organizers

2. Scaffolding participation & interaction

increase time to think

Promote pairwork & cooperative work

Providing scaffolding: questions, modeling, etc

Feedback & recast

3. Support through design of (assessment) tasks

Adapting L2 requirements of tasks

Writing clear instructions

Different exit points

Tools for supporting comprehension of materials

Using graphic organizers and other visuals

Using ICTs: PPT, powtoons, etc

Using video/powtoon

Simplifying and adapting texts

Different entry points

Support through teacher talk

Repeating & paraphrasing

Numbering

Signposting

Simplifying, summarising

DIFFERENT TECHNIQUES AND STRATEGIES FOR SUPPORTING LANGUAGE AND LEARNING (Enrique Lafuente)