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Community Engagement: Supporting Turkish Pupils and their Families
Earlier this school year when Emily Gazzard, Inclusion Manager at a large primary school in North London, found that some of the school’s EAL learners were not doing as well as hoped, she and her colleagues worked with parents to set up …
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Attitudes towards multilingualism and multilingual children in primary schools
The EAL Journal blog publishes plain language summaries of Masters and Doctoral research related to EAL. In this post Clare Cunningham Senior Lecturer in Linguistics at York St. John University presents a summary her doctoral research into attitudes towards the language practices …
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Somali Parents and Schooling in Britain
When Mohamed Kahin embarked on his PhD at IOE/UCL, he was already the author of the only book about the educational experience of the Somali community in the UK: Educating Somali Children in Britain, published by Gillian Klein at Trentham …
Meeting The Languages Challenge
Adapting to the realities of 21st century linguistic diversity among our school population can be a challenge. Bilingualism specialist Eowyn Crisfield describes how she and Jane Spiro, a colleague from Oxford Brookes University, explored how five schools in different parts …
Using multiple languages in education: experiences from the Informed Health Choices research project
Dr. Daniel Semakula is medical doctor at the Makerere University College of Health Sciences in Uganda, and Allen Nsangi is a Doctoral Researcher at Oslo University in Norway. They were recently involved in a large research project with Ugandan school …
The attainment of EAL pupils in England – What the headlines don’t tell us
The DfE recently published national data showing that, for the first time, average performance of EAL learners in GCSE examinations is higher than average performance of non-EAL pupils. This finding has prompted some to suggest that improving outcomes for EAL …
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EAL English Proficiency and Attainment: What does the national EAL assessment data tell us?
In 2016 the government introduced the requirement for schools to report the level of English proficiency for children classified as learning English as an additional language (EAL). This has provided a new opportunity to understand how English proficiency and academic attainment …
Cultures Connect: an inclusive celebration
Julia Boonak is Head of International Department at Bromsgrove School in the West Midlands. Bromsgrove attracts students from all around the world, representing a wide variety of languages and cultures. In this post Julia describes the school’s annual, student-led showcase …
Happy New Year
Happy New Year from all at NALDIC. EALjournal.org is back for 2018 with a great lineup of practical ideas, EAL news from around the world, and the views on the latest research into multilingual classrooms all in the works. In …
Happy Christmas!
We wish all our readers a very happy and restful holiday season. EALjournal.org will be back in the new year with more practical ideas, EAL news from around the world and the latest research into multilingual classrooms. We’ll also have …
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