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It is widely recognised that parents play an important role in children’s emotional and intellectual development, including their success at school. Recently, there has been a growing awareness of the potential of parents to support and enhance children’s English foreign languag…

International students are often under considerable pressure from language barriers, culture shock, social isolation and lack of social support in American universities. Those stressors often discourage international students as ESL learners from practicing English with native s…

This thesis presents a description and analysis of scaffolding in the construction of teaching knowledge in a pre-service teacher training course in a Turkish university. Prior research in the area of scaffolding in primary school classrooms has focused on pupils operating in th…