The official blog of NALDIC, the UK's subject association for EAL.
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Bringing English to Life in the EFL Classroom
Slobodana Zivkovic is an EAL teacher in an International Baccalaureate school in Mongolia. Here she describes a lesson in which she created an exciting context for language practice and language learning. Through the use of a ‘surprising’ turn of events, …
NALDIC’s response to Ofsted’s draft education inspection framework for 2019
NALDIC has responded to the draft eduction inspection framework published by Ofsted earlier this year. Our statement is reproduced below. Anyone is entitled to submit a response to the document and may do so until 11:45 on Friday 5 April …
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Literacy engagement in French immersion programmes
The EAL Journal blog publishes plain language summaries of EAL-related Master’s and doctoral research. In this post Marina Antony-Newman presents a summary of her Master’s dissertation on L1 literacy maintenance and its effects on L2 and L3 development.
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What multilingual learners say …
The EAL Journal blog publishes plain language summaries of EAL-related Master’s and Doctoral research. In this post Monika Reece, teacher, teacher educator, and researcher on migration, equality and EAL presents a summary of her PhD research on perceptions of being …
The experiences of secondary school students with EAL: perceptions, priorities and pedagogy
The British Council has recently published a paper focusing on The experiences of secondary school students with English as an additional language: perceptions, priorities and pedagogy. The paper reports on a project undertaken by Graham Hall, of Northumbria University, with …
Using Concept Definition Maps to Support EAL learners in Maths
Jonathan Bifield is an EAL coordinator in Leicester. He gave a fantastic workshop at the last NALDIC conference about vocabulary building with EAL learners. In this post Jonathan shares his approach to using concept maps to develop maths vocabulary with …
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Working together to drive the EAL discussion
One of the key aspirations of NALDIC is to help forge links between practitioners, researchers and policy makers. We believe that when these groups talk to each other everyone has a much better chance of driving EAL-related research, policy and …
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