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Five-phase scaffolding instructional design for language courses

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Description

The article applies He's (1997) five-component scaffolding model to an emergency language course: building the scaffold (pre-testing to determine learning situation), entering the context (using movies or pictures to create emergency situations), independent exploration (teacher guidance gradually decreasing as student ability increases), collaborative learning (group work and discussion), and evaluation (student presentations with timely teacher feedback). This sequence structures an 8-week course across four emergency-event teaching units. The article describes it as a design in which "the teacher's guidance gradually decreases as the students' problem-solving ability increases until the students are able to complete the tasks independently."

Design Implications

Context

Requirements

  • Teacher capacity to design graduated learning units and provide timely feedback
  • Pre-testing to determine students' starting point

Constraints

  • Validated only for a foreign-language (English) emergency language course with Chinese undergraduates; the article notes other language types (Mandarin, dialects, sign languages) were not studied

Target Learners

  • Undergraduate students of teaching Chinese to speakers of other languages

Learning Goals

  • Emergency language proficiency in English
  • Professionalism as emergency personnel

Claims

Examples

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Key Sources

  • Zhu An, Ye Jian-Hong. (2026). The Impact of Scaffolding on Academic Achievement in Undergraduate Emergency Language Courses. Journal of Psycholinguistic Research. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10936-026-10254-9
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title Five-phase scaffolding instructional design for language courses
description The article applies He's (1997) five-component scaffolding model to an emergency language course: building the scaffold (pre-testing to determine learning situation), entering the context (using movies or pictures to...
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generated by process:settle-candidates on 2026-11-04
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