CHILD DEVELOPMENT PEDAGOGY

Detailed explanation-1: -Scaffolding techniques allow teachers to clarify the purpose and give instructions. Furthermore, teachers use them to promote cooperative tasks and encourage safe relationships. These techniques help learners extend their level of understanding and complete tasks successfully.

Detailed explanation-2: -Scaffolding is a way to support children’s learning of language. It helps a child move from simple language to more complicated language. Scaffolding language means helping a child learn a new skill by building on skills that they already have. Adults give support by talking to children in different ways.

Detailed explanation-3: -"Scaffolding refers to providing contextual supports for meaning through the use of simplified language, teacher modeling, visuals and graphics, cooperative learning and hands-on learning” (Ovando, Collier, & Combs, 2003, p. 345). The teacher of second language learners has to facilitate that support.

Detailed explanation-4: -1. What is the initial state? That is, what do learners bring to the task of acquisition in terms of underlying knowledge related to language? The concept of initial state refers to the starting point for L2 learners; namely, what they bring to the task of acquiring another language.