Author: Iva Miteva, EAL specialist 你好 Привіт Merhaba Здравей Buna ziua ہیلو Cześć How often do you hear these in the school playground? And actually, not […]
Author: Miranda Howell, EAL Specialist The United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child is a human rights treaty that encompasses specific children’s rights […]
Author: Shalu Aara, EAL Specialist A learner’s wellbeing is vital to their achievement and overall success. Nevertheless, an EAL (English as an Additional Language) learner’s wellbeing […]
Author: Martha Giannakaki, EAL Specialist Our EAL learners are by no means a homogeneous group of learners and their needs in our classroom will vary to […]
Author: Iva Miteva, EAL Specialist What is the role of an EAL teacher? An EAL teacher is a professional specialising in working with learners for whom […]
Author: Miranda Howell, EAL Specialist What should we teach? Many of us have been in a situation where we want to communicate with someone who does […]
Author: Eli Briasco, EAL Specialist Despite legitimate claims that EAL students devote over half of their time to listening when functioning in English (Nunan, 1998), this […]
Author: Linda Boland-Quigley, Home School Community Liaison Parental involvement in children’s education can take many forms and can be experienced differently by each parent. The benefits […]
Author: Mary Langford, EAL Specialist (Mother Tongue & International Education) A growing number of international schools are demonstrating the importance and value of their students’ and teachers’ […]
Author: Miranda Howell, EAL Specialist How often does a classroom teacher approach an EAL teacher with the words, “I don’t know how to help this learner! […]
Author: Christine Hanley, EAL Specialist When I was teaching early literacy to adults some years ago, I had two teenage students from a refugee background join […]
Author: Eli Briasco, EAL Specialist Chances are, if you’ve been teaching English for a while, you’ve provided plenty of feedback to your learners on the accuracy […]
Author: Breda Matthews, EAL Specialist Schools often have a number of students who are not yet literate in English. Whilst this includes English-speaking children who are […]
The big day has arrived, the new uniform is looking smart, and now our ‘senior’ Primary school learners are about to become important ‘junior’ Secondary school […]
The Early Career Framework was made compulsory in the UK in September 2021. It replaces the year-long NQT period. It is a two-year programme of support […]
Author: Christine Hanley, EAL Specialist Studying mathematics in an English-medium school presents learners of English as an Additional Language (EAL) with a double cognitive whammy as […]
Author: Miranda Howell, EAL Specialist The traditional way to start a lesson with Secondary school learners is with a ‘do now!’ activity. It works. You get […]
Author: Yzanne Mackay Everyone recognises the importance of staying safe online – but it’s not always straightforward. For many of us, computing – including social media, […]
Author: Isabelle Bridger-Eames, EAL Specialist Barry and Matthew Carpenter’s ‘Recovery Curriculum’ has many applications for EAL pupils. Their ‘Recovery Curriculum’ was created during the 2021-21 pandemic, […]
Author: Louise Kearns, English Language Specialist Teacher In March 2020 International Primary School Almere, along with all other schools here in the Netherlands, went into lockdown […]
Author: Miranda Howell, EAL Specialist As school teachers faced with EAL learners in our classrooms, we often push the teaching of phonics down the list, especially […]
Author: Isabelle Bridger-Eames, EAL Specialist What is a cloze procedure? Cloze procedures are tasks where learners fill in the blanks in a text from which entire […]
Author: Yzanne Mackay It’s now almost exactly a year since the UK education system went into lockdown. The ruling that schools must close to almost all […]
Author: Sarah Jones, EAL Coordinator, Lea Forest Academy In January 2021, we commenced another lockdown in the UK and put our recovery curriculum on hold. […]
Author: Miranda Howell, EAL Specialist For those of us who are EAL teachers in school, selecting our language learning outcomes is only one consideration in […]
Author: Eli Briasco, EAL Specialist Think about the last lesson you taught to English language learners. I’m sure you did some form of planning beforehand. I […]
Author: Breda Matthews, EAL Specialist Assessment in an EAL context takes many forms. It can be formal (e.g. tests and examinations), informal (e.g. teacher observations) […]
Author: Isabelle Bridger, EAL Specialist As educators, we are naturally reflective creatures, habitually revisiting lessons in our minds to see if we could somehow improve. […]
Author: Caroline Scott, author and director Transitioning successfully between extended home and school learning has been the struggle of every affected school, across the globe, […]
Author: Isabelle Bridger-Eames, EAL Specialist Effective assessment for learning (AfL) is ‘informed feedback to pupils about their work’ (Shaw, 1998). As Broadfoot et al (1999) […]
Author: Caroline Scott, author and director If you have the opportunity to use a bilingual support partner to help families who have learners working from […]
Author: Caroline Scott, author and director We are all faced with very different learning situations at the moment and home learning has become the current […]
Author: Lois Francis, Ethnic Minority Achievement Adviser, Integra Schools, South Gloucestershire Council It is often easier for learners who are new to English to cope […]
Author: Sarah Jones, EAL Coordinator International Mother Language Day (IMLD) is a worldwide observance celebrated annually on 21st February. It promotes awareness of cultural and […]
Author: Dr. Anne Margaret Smith There are many similarities between music and language, in the way they are organised, processed and produced. Music therefore has […]
Author: Sarah Jones, EAL Coordinator, Lea Forest Academy In September 2015, Lea Forest Academy took on an additional class of 16 Year 2 newly arrived […]
Author: Yzanne Mackay “Parental involvement is invaluable for any new arrival in transition. The learner’s family may be the only group of people who truly […]
Author: Anita Bamberger When considering the Chinese language, the Chinese proverb ‘a picture paints a thousand words’ is apposite. Chinese is a complex language of […]
Author: Breda Matthews, EAL Specialist Schools often have a number of students who are not yet literate in English. Whilst this includes English-speaking children who are […]
Author: Linda Boland-Quigley, Home School Community Liaison Parental involvement in children’s education can take many forms and can be experienced differently by each parent. The benefits […]