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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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 Concept Definition Maps to Support EAL learners in Maths
Jonathan Bifield is an EAL coordinator in Leicester. He gave a fantastic workshop at the last NALDIC conference about vocabulary building with EAL learners. In this post Jonathan shares his approach to using concept maps to develop maths vocabulary with …
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The Power of Substitution Tables
Kamil Trzebiatowski, EAL Coordinator at a secondary school in Hull and nationwide EAL consultant, describes how he uses substitution tables in the classroom to support language development across the curriculum.
Practical ideas for using L1 in the classroom
Kamil Trzebiatowski, member of NALDIC’s executive committee and EAL Coordinator at a secondary school in Hull, describes some of the classroom approaches he uses for incorporating EAL learners’ home languages to support their learning in English across the curriculum.
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 …
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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Using multiple languages in education: experiences from the Informed Health Choices research project
Dr. Daniel Semakula is medical doctor at the Makerere University College of Health Sciences in Uganda, and Allen Nsangi is a Doctoral Researcher at Oslo University in Norway. They were recently involved in a large research project with Ugandan school …
What’s in a RIG?
Dianne Excell is the national coordinator for NALDIC’s regional interest groups. In this post, she tells us why they’re important and what you can expect if you come to one. She also introduces the first of her in-depth reports …
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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