We live in a multilingual society. Cate Hamilton, founder of Babel Babies, an organisation that brings multilingualism to all children no matter their linguistic backgrounds, tells her story of the joy that linguistic pluralism can bring.
Supporting whole school EAL: a web-based solution
The role of the EAL Coordinator at any school can bring with it enormous responsibility. While direct support for individual students forms part of this responsibility, as important is the job of the EAL specialist to ensure that mainstream colleagues …
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New Arrivals: an Australian Approach
Imagine being a Syrian or Iraqi teenager speaking only a few words of English, arriving in Australia as part of a refugee resettlement programme and starting your first day at school. Only, to your surprise, a majority of people at …
Let’s MOOC to Catch Up
The EAL Journal publishes plain language summaries of Master’s and PhD research. In this post Napat Jitpaisarnwattana summarises his dissertation work recently completed as a part of his MSc study at Oxford. Adopting a blended learning approach, he compared the …
Identifying ‘good practice’ in CLIL and BSO Schools in Spain: a case for more collaboration
NALDIC publishes plain language summaries of Master’s and Doctoral research. In this post Shona O’Callaghan reports on her Master’s research exploring good practice in two models of English-oriented mainstream education in Spain.
Deep Learning in a Primary EAL Context
Jay Maxwell is Year 2 Coordinator at Assumption College English Programme, one of the longest-standing international/English language programmes in Thailand. In this post he describes an approach to deep learning he used in a Year 2 science lesson. The approach, …
