Carrie Norman is a former EAL Lead and a current primary school principal. She started Beelingual UK – a publisher of multilingual children’s books – in response to the needs she saw in school. Our EAL pupils have always achieved …
EAL pupils with special needs: Are we meeting their needs?
Andrea Tan reports on a research seminar that she led at Bangor University, Wales, last month. It focused on the needs of EAL pupils with special needs, highlighting the paucity of research in this area, especially in the UK. In the past two decades, …
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Creative ESOL for EAL
ReWrite is a London-based charity that aims to break down barriers of prejudice and racism through drama and creative writing. This post, by Farha Bi, builds on her experience of running Creative ESOL with EAL pupils in London schools. Rewrite has been working …
Issue two is out!
Issue two is out! NALDIC members will receive this issue today. For everyone else, here’s a little peek at our special issue on CPD for EAL … Our cover features Bill Bolloten and Jonathan Brentnall (keynote speakers at NALDIC’s 24th …
EAL Cartography
Chris Dixon is a PhD candidate at the University of Sheffield, where he studies the language and literacy development of EAL pupils in years 4-6. In this post he shares the ‘EAL Map’ of England and Wales that he created as …
CPD Through the Power of Partnership Teaching
Linda Sandler is Head of EAL at Falinge Park High School in Rochdale, where seventy-eight per cent of the pupils are bilingual. In this post she describes partnership teaching and offers a vignette based on her own experience of how …
Unblocking university for displaced people
Today we begin a new series of blog posts around EAL. Our first is from Anna Lindley of SOAS (the School for Oriental and African Studies) in London. She writes about what universities can do for displaced people, including a …
Misapprehension and Misinformation — @TeacherToolkit
This post is by Diane Leedham, NALDIC stalwart and EAL commentator, and is from the excellent Teacher Toolkit blog. She discusses the ongoing issues around the DfE requesting nationality data from parents and gives advice for colleagues on the front line. Are …
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No more marking
‘No More Marking’ is a freely available online tool that helps judges (e.g. teachers) to apply judgment to the best possible effect, using a technique called 'Comparative Judgement'.
‘English for academic purposes’ for EAL
Jenny Verney is an English teacher and EAL and Academic Literacy Coordinator at a secondary school in Sheffield. She teaches GCSE English and A-Level English Language, and writes and delivers courses in Academic English. In this blog post she discusses …
