scaffolding applied in a bilingual context for Thai university students learning English.Useful in as much as it shows how the teacher is a sort of ' interpreter ' who acts as a bridge for cultural understanding between two very different cultures and uses the students' L1 to aid this process. From my understanding L1 is used to scaffold L2 and the teacher's shared understanding of the students' culture background, shared by all barr one of the professors, allows the professor to accompany and aid the students in the more complex culturally bound aspects of the language whilst at the same time acting as a mediator who enlightens their journey into the english language and cultural understanding.