The official blog of NALDIC, the UK's subject association for EAL.
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A Universal Story in A Universal Language?
Chris Michael tells us about his live stage show that reimagines the Charlie Chaplin silent film classic, The Immigrant, for a live theatre audience. Chris hopes that this show will demonstrate that theatre is for everyone, no matter their level …
An open letter to the New Secretary of State for Education
Following the appointment of Boris Johnson as Prime Minster, Gavin Williamson took office as the new Secretary of State for Education. As with all such appointments, NALDIC has written to welcome him to the sector and to urge him to …
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Supporting Multilingual Learners in the Early Years
The EAL Journal blog publishes plain language summaries of EAL-related Master’s and doctoral research. In this post Naila Malik provides a summary of her MSc research conducted at Bath Spa University on the practices of Early Years teachers with young multilingual …
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How to translate from Polish (even when you don’t know the language): The Stephen Spender Prize Polish Spotlight in the classroom
The Stephen Spender Trust was established in 1997 to promote poetry and translation. In this post Anna Blasiak, poet, translator and literature co-ordinator of the European Literature Network, who works with the Trust describes some of the fabulously creative multilingual …
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 …
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, …
Being Intentional: Great Practice for EAL from the USA
In summer 2018, when blogging for NALDIC about the loss of the DfE Proficiency Scales, I briefly referred to my then recent trip to the US to observe teachers in multilingual classrooms in Indianapolis. In July this year I made …
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