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As distance learning becomes the ‘new normal’, the absence of a collaborative classroom environment raises concerns that there will be fewer opportunities for learners to practise speaking English. This lockdown may be a difficult and unprecedented time, but there are …

Keeping up with the lessons and activities being set by teachers for your children is hard enough when instructions and guidance are in the language you are most proficient in. For parents who are English learners themselves, the challenge is …

Making emergency remote teaching manageable for students, teachers and parents is a challenge all educators are learning about (on the hoof). In this post Sophie Liggins, teacher and PhD candidate at the University of Essex describes a method of staying …

Helping English learners to talk about feeling poorly has never been so important. This activity from Natasha Ristic, a secondary school EAL and English coordinator looks at the language of feeling unwell.

Today’s home learning activity comes from Gosia Bates (@lingosia), EAL Co-ordinator at Ely College. She is keeping her EAL learners busy by finding edcuationally oriented competitions to enter.

Who here has felt guilty about screen time over the last week or so? I’m not beating myself up about it, trying to hold down the day job and home educate two kids is hard! But this post has me …

Today’s activity for use at home with EAL learners during the school closures is from Pete Clements, EAL teacher in Thailand. He shares some cracking YouTube themed activities.

We continue with our series of short activities to engage EAL learners at home during the school closures. This activity comes from Stuart Scott and Shirley Berry of the Collaborative Learning project.

Here’s another quick activity that parents can do at home. If you’re lucky enough to have some outdoor space, this activity combines a bit of phonics, and bit of reading and writing, and a bit of PE to keep the …