The Bell Foundation and NALDIC teamed up in April to host a webinar on supporting EAL learners during and after school closures. Here, Silvana Richardson of the Bell Foundation, who moderated the event, provides an excellent wrap on the proceedings. …
Category: EAL
What am I doing to support my EAL learners during lockdown?
In today’s covid-19 guidance, Jon Bifield, EAL Lead at a secondary school in Leicester, describes some of the ways he is helping to support his students during school closures. Jon is a prolific blogger on EAL, and a wealth of …
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Kitabu dual-language ebook Library, a library in my hands in less than a minute!
MantraLingua have provided free access to their extensive library of bilingual ebooks for multilingual families to use during the school closures. In this post (reblogged from the excellent Hampshire EMTAS website) by Eva Papathanassiou, Bilingual Assistant Manager at the organisation, …
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Promoting EAL Pupil Voice at home
As distance learning becomes the ‘new normal’, the absence of a collaborative classroom environment raises concerns that there will be fewer opportunities for learners to practise speaking English. This lockdown may be a difficult and unprecedented time, but there are …
Let’s not forget the EAL parents
Keeping up with the lessons and activities being set by teachers for your children is hard enough when instructions and guidance are in the language you are most proficient in. For parents who are English learners themselves, the challenge is …
Using Forms for Emergency Remote Teaching
Making emergency remote teaching manageable for students, teachers and parents is a challenge all educators are learning about (on the hoof). In this post Sophie Liggins, teacher and PhD candidate at the University of Essex describes a method of staying …
Bill, how do you feel? Coronavirus symptoms activity
Helping English learners to talk about feeling poorly has never been so important. This activity from Natasha Ristic, a secondary school EAL and English coordinator looks at the language of feeling unwell.
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Friendly Competitions
Today’s home learning activity comes from Gosia Bates (@lingosia), EAL Co-ordinator at Ely College. She is keeping her EAL learners busy by finding edcuationally oriented competitions to enter.
Parents save yourselves – with translations and Netflix!
Who here has felt guilty about screen time over the last week or so? I’m not beating myself up about it, trying to hold down the day job and home educate two kids is hard! But this post has me …
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Making more of YouTube for EAL learners
Today’s activity for use at home with EAL learners during the school closures is from Pete Clements, EAL teacher in Thailand. He shares some cracking YouTube themed activities.
