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.
Supporting whole school EAL: a web-based solution
The role of the EAL Coordinator at any school can bring with it enormous responsibility. While direct support for individual students forms part of this responsibility, as important is the job of the EAL specialist to ensure that mainstream colleagues …
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New Arrivals: an Australian Approach
Imagine being a Syrian or Iraqi teenager speaking only a few words of English, arriving in Australia as part of a refugee resettlement programme and starting your first day at school. Only, to your surprise, a majority of people at …
Let’s MOOC to Catch Up
The EAL Journal publishes plain language summaries of Master’s and PhD research. In this post Napat Jitpaisarnwattana summarises his dissertation work recently completed as a part of his MSc study at Oxford. Adopting a blended learning approach, he compared the …
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