NALDIC’s annual conference is a highlight of the year for EAL practitioners up and down the country. This year’s conference, NALDIC 26, is themed Evidence Informed Practice for EAL, and is being held in Leeds on 17 November. Jean Conteh …
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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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EAL in International Schools
Graham Smith is the managing director of The EAL Academy, one of the EAL Journal’s sponsors. In this post he reports on a recent International Schools conference that had much to contribute to the debate at home. Every three years ECIS …
IATEFL reflections
Nandhaka Pieris (NALDIC’s project officer) attended the IATEFL conference in Glasgow recently and sends this report. This post was originally published on Nandhaka’s personal blog. Happy Easter and happy reading! ELT, EAL, INCLUSIVE PRACTICES AND SPECIAL EDUCATIONAL NEEDS In this Inclusive …
New Speakers round table – conference report
The second in our week of research posts is a report from London. On Monday night, the UCL Centre for Applied Linguistics hosted a round-table discussion on ‘New Speakers’ of languages – a term that captures the complex of issues around …
ResearchED Language – conference report
There are a lot of teacher-research events happening this week, and we’ll be writing every day to share the findings and resources with you. First is Kamil Trzebiatowski, reporting from this weekend’s ResearchED Language conference in Oxford. Watch this space …
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Working together to drive the EAL discussion
One of the key aspirations of NALDIC is to help forge links between practitioners, researchers and policy makers. We believe that when these groups talk to each other everyone has a much better chance of driving EAL-related research, policy and …
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