The official blog of NALDIC, the UK's subject association for EAL.
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Creating Welcoming Learning Environments: Disseminating Arts-Based Methods in Including all Learners in their Education
Jane Andrews of the University of the West of England describes a research project that brings together teachers, the local authority, educators with a specialism in supporting EAL learners, researchers and creative artists to explore arts based methods for promoting …
Regional Interest Group Round Up
NALDIC Regional Interest Groups (RIGs) are a great way to get involved with the EAL community in your area. Run by local volunteers, they bring educators together to share and learn about practice, research and advocacy in the field of …
Finding Young EAL Learners’ Voices: Using Google Translate in class
Using children’s home languages in English medium classrooms is widely agreed to be good practice. But how can teachers with classes with lots of different home languages make this a reality for all children? Josh Martin and Mindy McCracken of …
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NALDIC 25: Feedback from last year’s national conference
One of the most important dates in the NALDIC calendar is our annual National Conference. Last year’s conference, ‘Educating multilingual learners in the 21st century: The next 25 years’ celebrated 25 years of research, practice and advocacy by NALDIC. This milestone …
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Supporting unaccompanied asylum seeker children: eLearning for social workers, schools and foster carers
Jane Townsend has worked with asylum seeker children and their families in Gloucester for many years. In this post she describes an initiative that she set up with the county council to help social workers, schools and foster carers understand …
How well prepared to teach EAL learners do teachers feel?
The EAL Journal blog publishes plain language summaries of EAL-related Masters and Doctoral research. In this post Emily Starbuck, who did her Masters at Oxford Brookes University, presents a summary of her research into how well prepared teachers feel about teaching EAL learners.
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Becoming bilingual at preschool: Greek children’s acquisition of subject pronouns in English
The EAL Journal blog publishes plain language summaries of EAL-related Masters and Doctoral research. In this post Faidra Faitaki, doctoral researcher at the University of Oxford, presents a summary of her MSc research into cross-linguistic influence in Greek children attending English medium pre-schools.
Translanguaging in linguistically diverse classrooms. Does it improve outcomes for multilingual children?
The EAL Journal blog publishes plain language summaries of EAL-related Masters and Doctoral research. In this post Hamish Chalmers, doctoral researcher at Oxford Brookes University, presents a summary of his Masters research into the effects of a translanguaging-inspired approach to teaching in linguistically diverse classrooms.
Knowing Your Genres – Helping EAL learners to identify text types and features
Manny Vazquez is an EAL consultant and language specialist at Hounslow Language Service. In this post he describes how he worked with Year 11 students to adapt a new teaching resource and in so doing helped them to reinforce their …
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A place in the sun … or the Daily Mail
I had the good fortune to be in Melbourne at the end of November and visited the fantastic Immigration Museum, which just so happened to be having a special exhibition about British migrants to Australia. It was illuminating to be …
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