The term scaffolding originates from the construction industry. It is a key concept in CLIL. Learners have a determined level of cognition in accordance with their age but their foreign language level is, generally, much lower. The gap between the cognition level and the language level is a major concern for CLIL teachers, and all the language support that learners are provided with is therefore within the ambit of language scaffolding.
Language scaffolding is an essential tool to achieve success in any CLIL context; if learners do not have the proper language support to communicate (either reading, writing, listening or talking), then the teaching process will fail
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