The official blog of NALDIC, the UK's subject association for EAL.
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EAL in International Schools
Graham Smith is the managing director of The EAL Academy, one of the EAL Journal’s sponsors. In this post he reports on a recent International Schools conference that had much to contribute to the debate at home. Every three years ECIS …
Issue three is out!
Issue three is out! NALDIC members will receive this issue today. For everyone else, here’s a little peek at our special issue on Children’s Literature … Our cover features of the contributors to our special issue on Children’s Literature. Inside …
Three EAL events in June!
This week, we’re sharing news of some great EAL events that are coming next month, in Oxford, Hull and Leeds. We’re coming into the summer conference season, so don’t forget to check your copy of the EAL Journal for full listings …
The EAL Teaching Survey
… tell us how you feel about EAL policy and practice. Naomi Flynn and colleagues from the University of Reading have developed a survey to capture how EAL teachers feel about their work and the broader policies around EAL. In this …
Literacy for Achievement
This short post is a call for action! There’s a fantastic CPD programme being developed with major funding behind it – the sort of thing we’ve been crying out for. They’re short a few participants, though, so please do read on and …
IATEFL reflections
Nandhaka Pieris (NALDIC’s project officer) attended the IATEFL conference in Glasgow recently and sends this report. This post was originally published on Nandhaka’s personal blog. Happy Easter and happy reading! ELT, EAL, INCLUSIVE PRACTICES AND SPECIAL EDUCATIONAL NEEDS In this Inclusive …
What is research and who is it for?
In the last of our mini-series of research blogs, Victoria Murphy asks what counts as research and whether everything that teachers are presented with should be given equal weight. Research comes in many forms, from reading reports of previous studies …
New Speakers round table – conference report
The second in our week of research posts is a report from London. On Monday night, the UCL Centre for Applied Linguistics hosted a round-table discussion on ‘New Speakers’ of languages – a term that captures the complex of issues around …
ResearchED Language – conference report
There are a lot of teacher-research events happening this week, and we’ll be writing every day to share the findings and resources with you. First is Kamil Trzebiatowski, reporting from this weekend’s ResearchED Language conference in Oxford. Watch this space …
Nurturing a rich first language – the key to success in school
Carrie Norman is a former EAL Lead and a current primary school principal. She started Beelingual UK – a publisher of multilingual children’s books – in response to the needs she saw in school. Our EAL pupils have always achieved …
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