Scaffolding Strategies for Multiple-leveled Classrooms. And Their Impact to High School Students in Ecuador

      Аннотация: With the current evolution of classrooms, many of our teachers in the EFL field feel overwhelmed about the ways to try to get their students to a better knowledge using strategies and implementing activities which can contribute to the positive development of a second language acquisition. Yet this may seem an easy task, the truth is, it is not. And just like hundreds of schools with the same problem, Unidad Educativa Biling?e Tejar, in Daule, Ecuador presents the particular case of a classroom that contains students with different background knowledge and skills in the L2, besides being new to the institution. Through the end of the year, it is expected that these groups of students are prepared and kept up with the other classes of Eight Grades in order to get ready for the coming year, and also to adapt them to the English curriculum presented by the school. During the writing of this research project, the solution to be tested for this problem is with Jerome Bruner’s Scaffolding system, turned into strategies…

Ключевые слова: scaffolding, Strategies, Multiple-leveled Classroom, high school, Students, Language acquisition, English as a second language, Ecuadorian Education