The official blog of NALDIC, the UK's subject association for EAL.
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Tongue twisters
During school closures we are publishing descriptions of short activities that EAL learners can do independently at home or with their parents, or that can be set by teachers for online learning. Today’s activity comes from Charlotte Harding of The …
At home, low-tech learning activities – Guest Post
Beth Skelton, EAL consultant, presenter and coach offers advice and activities for families who don’t have ready access to high tech resources at home. Her activity ideas are classified by age phase and she has provided a list of ‘great …
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Listening Skills Activity – Covid19
During school closures we are publishing descriptions of short activities that EAL learners can do independently at home or with their parents, or that can be set by teachers for online learning. Today’s activity comes from Samira Moradi of Southgate School. …
Resources for EAL Learners During School Closures
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 …
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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.
