Understand how to contribute to the assessment of bilingual learners
This video from Realising Equality and Achievement for Learners (REAL) looks at EAL new arrivals in key stage 3 and 4 and how to use assessment to identify EAL learners who are Gifted and Talented.
Table of Contents
- Tutorial Video
- Reading Materials
- 'The rights of every child: A summary of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child’ from UNICEF UK
- ‘New arrivals’ from The Bell Foundation
- 'Aiming High: Meeting the needs of newly arrived learners of English as an additional language (EAL)’ from Naldic
- ‘EAL Assessment Framework’ from The Bell Foundation
- 'EAL Learners in Schools’ from Naldic
- 'Challenges in bilingual families no one tells you about’ from Dr Nicole Brown
- 'Language needs or special needs? The assessment of learning difficulties in literacy among children learning English as an additional language: a literature review’ By Tony Cline and Tatheer Shamsi
- 'Distinguishing the different SEN or EAL?’ by Susan Rosamond, Imtiaz Bhatti, Marion Sharieff, Karen Wilson
- 'EAL learners with Special Educational Needs or Disabilities’ from The Bell Foundation
- Presentation
- Click to launch this lesson’s presentation on ‘Additional languages and learning English’ from the University of Worcester.
- Click to launch this lesson’s presentation on ‘Improving outcomes for all pupils: Supporting pupils learning english as an additional language' by Prue Reynolds
- Good Practice Example
- Good Practice Example
- Good Practice Example
- Interactive Quiz
- Evidence Opportunities
- Extended Learning
- This article from the National Subject Association for Language Development in the Curriculum (Naldic) is on ‘Bilingualism and second language acquisition’.
- ‘How do I assess an EAL learner?’ from The Bell Foundation and EAL Nexus.
- This article on ‘Education Policy: Learners who Use EAL in England’ is from The Bell Foundation.
- Extended Learning
- Think And Challenge
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