Below is a crowd-sourced compendium of resources that can be used with EAL learners at home with their parents or independently during the school shutdown. I have tried to arrange these thematically, but have not been able to verify every …
Year: 2020
Teach Real English!: Teaching English as it’s spoken ‘in the wild’
Devyani Sharma is Professor of Sociolinguistics at Queen Mary University of London. In this post she shares a fabulous resource developed by sociolinguistics at Queen Mary’s London to bring the reality of linguistic diversity and variation to life in the …
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The Gift of Languages
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.