The official blog of NALDIC, the UK's subject association for EAL.
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Defining the knowledge base of CLIL
Dee Rutgers of the University of Cambridge describes ongoing research that brings together teachers, teacher educators and researchers from the UK and the Netherlands to jointly define the knowledge base of CLIL (Content and Language Integrated Learning) teaching in multilingual …
The Power of Substitution Tables
Kamil Trzebiatowski, EAL Coordinator at a secondary school in Hull and nationwide EAL consultant, describes how he uses substitution tables in the classroom to support language development across the curriculum.
Using dual language story books to foster biliteracy
The EAL Journal blog publishes plain language summaries of EAL-related Master’s and Doctoral research. In this post Dominika Gordon, EAL teacher at Eaton Square School in Kensington, London presents a summary of her Master’s research on using bilingual books as a …
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RIGs round-up
Regional Interest Groups (RIGs) are NALDIC’s way of engaging directly with local teaching and learning communities up and down the country. Dianne Excell, national RIGs coordinator, reports on what our flourishing network of RIGs has been up to recently.
Language Diversity and Educational attainment of Eastern European pupils in primary schools in England
Feyisa Demie is an Honorary Fellow at Durham University and head of research for school self-evaluation at Lambeth Local Authority. In this post he summarises his research paper that breaks down linguistic background data and attainment in Key Stage 2 …
Family Skills: improving EAL learner’s literacy through family involvement
Fatima Husain and Sarah Frankenburg of NatCen Social Research were independent evaluators on a recent Education Endowment Foundation (EEF) trial of the Family Skills programme. Family Skills was designed to support academic progress in young EAL learners with family involvement …
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Talking about teaching bilingual children: Encounters with difference
The EAL Journal blog publishes plain language summaries of EAL-related Master’s and Doctoral research. In this post Judith Flynn, Ed. D., Associate Lecturer in Education at Manchester Metropolitan University and EAL specialist, presents a summary of her doctoral thesis on pedagogic discourse among …
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One Year On: Making the Switch to EAL in an International School
In November of last year Paul Barry, EAL Specialist at Shrewsbury International School in Bangkok, Thailand wrote a post for EALJournal.org exploring questions that a teacher considering working in the international sector might want to ask abut the role. You …
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Extending vocabulary with LIPs
Mallory Henson is Principal Educational Psychologist in Milton Keynes Educational Psychology Service, and Chelsea Moore is a Psychology Assistant in the same team. They have recently been involved in re-launching their ‘Language Intervention Programme’ (LIPs) which aims to extend children’s …
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NALDIC’s Response to New Research on English Proficiency Assessment
Last month 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. The …
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