Book Review: Kiraly, D. & Signer, S. (2017). Scaffolded Language Emergence in the Classroom: From Theory to Practice.
Rauhoff, G. (2017). Book Review: Kiraly, D. & Signer, S. (2017). Scaffolded Language Emergence in the Classroom: From Theory to Practice. Apples: Journal of Applied Language Studies, 11 (4), 75-78. Retrieved from http://apples.jyu.fi/article/abstract/571
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This is a book review for Donald Kiraly and Sarah Signer's co-written piece that provides a readers a new approach to language learning. In Scaffolded Language Emergence (SLE), the classroom environment is revised to facilitate second language emergent behavior. The book review provides a brief summary of SLE, a summary of Kiraly and Signer's expertise in relation to the book's contents, and an evaluation of the book.
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