Jay Maxwell is Year 2 Coordinator at Assumption College English Programme, one of the longest-standing international/English language programmes in Thailand. In this post he describes an approach to deep learning he used in a Year 2 science lesson. The approach, …
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Bringing English to Life in the EFL Classroom
Slobodana Zivkovic is an EAL teacher in an International Baccalaureate school in Mongolia. Here she describes a lesson in which she created an exciting context for language practice and language learning. Through the use of a ‘surprising’ turn of events, …
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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Changing Lives through Writing
Dave Windass from writing charity First Story tells us all about their fabulous projects that transform the writing experience for young EAL writers. He also tells about National Writing Day, which is next week, and urges us all to get involved.
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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Cultures Connect: an inclusive celebration
Julia Boonak is Head of International Department at Bromsgrove School in the West Midlands. Bromsgrove attracts students from all around the world, representing a wide variety of languages and cultures. In this post Julia describes the school’s annual, student-led showcase …
Early teens researching together: What language do you think in?
Mirela Dumić and Clare Brumpton set up a ‘Research Institute’ at their school, working with early-teen students to investigate issues around multilingualism. A report of the students’ work was published in the Autumn 2017 issue of the EAL Journal. Here, …
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Analysing classroom English
Kamil Trzebiatowski, an EAL teacher from Hull, has examined his students’ writing to find out what priority should be given to different language features. It’s frequently heard in schools across the country that EAL learners ‘need to learn …
Bilingual EAL Library
Hamish Chalmers is a regular contributor on the use of first languages in the classroom. In this piece, he introduces an account by Kay Robinson, EAL Specialist at East Oxford Primary School, describing her success in developing a bilingual library …
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Being Intentional: Great Practice for EAL from the USA
In summer 2018, when blogging for NALDIC about the loss of the DfE Proficiency Scales, I briefly referred to my then recent trip to the US to observe teachers in multilingual classrooms in Indianapolis. In July this year I made …
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