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 …
Category: EAL
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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Community Engagement: Supporting Turkish Pupils and their Families
Earlier this school year when Emily Gazzard, Inclusion Manager at a large primary school in North London, found that some of the school’s EAL learners were not doing as well as hoped, she and her colleagues worked with parents to set up …
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Attitudes towards multilingualism and multilingual children in primary schools
The EAL Journal blog publishes plain language summaries of Masters and Doctoral research related to EAL. In this post Clare Cunningham Senior Lecturer in Linguistics at York St. John University presents a summary her doctoral research into attitudes towards the language practices …
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Somali Parents and Schooling in Britain
When Mohamed Kahin embarked on his PhD at IOE/UCL, he was already the author of the only book about the educational experience of the Somali community in the UK: Educating Somali Children in Britain, published by Gillian Klein at Trentham …
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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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