WILLIAM EZE.
DEPARTMENT OF ENGLISH
EBONYI STATE COLLEGE OF EDUCATION, IKWO.
Abstract.
This paper entitled the role of Scaffolding, Literature Circle and Cooperative Learning Strategies, in boosting child- Centered learning of English Language is aimed at showing language teachers the importance of making language learning child centered through the use of the mentioned strategies in class. The purpose of classroom interaction is for students learning to take place. Sometimes this learning does not take place because of the method, approaches and procedures used by the teacher in the learning situation. Some of interactions are teacher based. Teacher based instruction inhibits learning because it does not allow the students to play active roles in the learning activities. But when the teacher is aware of the students Zone of Proximal Development (ZPD), he will build new knowledge and concepts on the level where they are with the students? full participation in the classroom activities. Scaffolding instructional strategies, literature circle and cooperative learning are instructional strategies that if the teacher employs carefully, they ensure child centered learning as the students play active roles in the learning activities while the teacher only guides them. This is because ?what I hear, I do not understand, what I see I forget and what I do I know?. This paper therefore recommends that scaffolding instructional strategies should be used to promote child ? centered cooperative learning to students? English language.
Keywords: Scaffolding Literature Circle, Cooperative Learning Strategies and English Language.
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