The official blog of NALDIC, the UK's subject association for EAL.
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NALDIC’s response to Ofsted’s draft education inspection framework for 2019
NALDIC has responded to the draft eduction inspection framework published by Ofsted earlier this year. Our statement is reproduced below. Anyone is entitled to submit a response to the document and may do so until 11:45 on Friday 5 April …
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Literacy engagement in French immersion programmes
The EAL Journal blog publishes plain language summaries of EAL-related Master’s and doctoral research. In this post Marina Antony-Newman presents a summary of her Master’s dissertation on L1 literacy maintenance and its effects on L2 and L3 development.
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What multilingual learners say …
The EAL Journal blog publishes plain language summaries of EAL-related Master’s and Doctoral research. In this post Monika Reece, teacher, teacher educator, and researcher on migration, equality and EAL presents a summary of her PhD research on perceptions of being …
The experiences of secondary school students with EAL: perceptions, priorities and pedagogy
The British Council has recently published a paper focusing on The experiences of secondary school students with English as an additional language: perceptions, priorities and pedagogy. The paper reports on a project undertaken by Graham Hall, of Northumbria University, with …
Using Concept Definition Maps to Support EAL learners in Maths
Jonathan Bifield is an EAL coordinator in Leicester. He gave a fantastic workshop at the last NALDIC conference about vocabulary building with EAL learners. In this post Jonathan shares his approach to using concept maps to develop maths vocabulary with …
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Using the L1 in EMI – New Position Paper from Oxford University Press
On Wednesday this week Oxford University Press launches the latest in its series of ELT position papers: The Role of the First Language in English Medium Instruction. The piece was written by NALDIC Vice-Chair, Hamish Chalmers, in collaboration with an …
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Happy New Year
Everyone here at NALDIC hopes that you had a fantastic festive season and are well refreshed for the new term. In our first update of the new year we let you know about some important changes at NALDIC and offer …
How much can we learn from measuring EAL students’ English proficiency? A lot, actually.
In October 2018, Oxford University, The Bell Foundation and Unbound Philanthropy published a research study that used data collected as a part of the now rescinded requirement for school to assess and report English language proficiency in the school census. NALDIC …
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Teaching primary foreign languages in multilingual classrooms
The EAL Journal blog publishes plain language summaries of EAL-related Master’s and doctoral research. In this post Katy Finch, doctoral researcher in the Division of Human Communication at the University of Manchester presents a summary of her Master’s dissertation on teachers’ …
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The Teacher’s Middle Way: Blending Local and Foreign Curricula
One of the attractions for parents and students of the international and EMI school sector is the promise of an education based on British, American or other ‘Western’ educational norms. An inclusive approach in these settings, however, ensures that local …
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