Scaffolding has been a recurrent key concept in the subject lessons. This term have its origin in Vygotsky's concept of Zone of Proximal Development (ZPD) which is, in essence, the difference between what a learner can achieve without help and what he/she can't do. This refers to the distance that exist between the actual psychic development of an individual and her/his potential development.
Vygostksy distinguishes among Zone of Real Development, which covers the level of a task that one individual can resolve independently and the Zone of Potential Development, which is the level that one individual can achieve with an expert's assistance. Therefore, Zone of Proximal Development embraces the space where, due to the interaction and help of others, one individual can resolve a problem that he/she wouldn't be able to figure out by himself/herself.
The Scaffolding is simply the elaboration and implementation by and expert of a necessary construction to accomplish the resolution of a particular task by a student. This Scaffolding must be adjustable and might have temporary nature to allow its removal once the student integrates a certain activity in his/her Zone of Real Development.
An example of this strategy, that can be applied in our field of study, could be to provide a certain vocabulary through a small bunch of words or a group of verbs that we are interested in working on and then order students to write down 3 to 5 phrases using, at least, 3 words in each phrase.
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