Beth Skelton, EAL consultant, presenter and coach offers advice and activities for families who don’t have ready access to high tech resources at home. Her activity ideas are classified by age phase and she has provided a list of ‘great …
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Listening Skills Activity – Covid19
During school closures we are publishing descriptions of short activities that EAL learners can do independently at home or with their parents, or that can be set by teachers for online learning. Today’s activity comes from Samira Moradi of Southgate School. …
Resources for EAL Learners During School Closures
Below is a crowd-sourced compendium of resources that can be used with EAL learners at home with their parents or independently during the school shutdown. I have tried to arrange these thematically, but have not been able to verify every …
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Teach Real English!: Teaching English as it’s spoken ‘in the wild’
Devyani Sharma is Professor of Sociolinguistics at Queen Mary University of London. In this post she shares a fabulous resource developed by sociolinguistics at Queen Mary’s London to bring the reality of linguistic diversity and variation to life in the …
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Supporting whole school EAL: a web-based solution
The role of the EAL Coordinator at any school can bring with it enormous responsibility. While direct support for individual students forms part of this responsibility, as important is the job of the EAL specialist to ensure that mainstream colleagues …
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New Arrivals: an Australian Approach
Imagine being a Syrian or Iraqi teenager speaking only a few words of English, arriving in Australia as part of a refugee resettlement programme and starting your first day at school. Only, to your surprise, a majority of people at …
Let’s MOOC to Catch Up
The EAL Journal publishes plain language summaries of Master’s and PhD research. In this post Napat Jitpaisarnwattana summarises his dissertation work recently completed as a part of his MSc study at Oxford. Adopting a blended learning approach, he compared the …
Identifying ‘good practice’ in CLIL and BSO Schools in Spain: a case for more collaboration
NALDIC publishes plain language summaries of Master’s and Doctoral research. In this post Shona O’Callaghan reports on her Master’s research exploring good practice in two models of English-oriented mainstream education in Spain.
Deep Learning in a Primary EAL Context
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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