Understand how to support bilingual learners to access the curriculum
In this tutorial you will learn:
- About the need to make new arrivals feel welcome and supported
- How to reduce anxiety and increase a new arrival's sense of well-being
- That teachers need to plan for both language development and subject knowledge
Table of Contents
- Tutorial Video
- Reading Materials
- 'Applying Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs In Our Classrooms’ from the Change Kids Lives website.
- 'The challenges facing EAL learners’ from Mesh Guides
- 'The challenges of English as an additional language’ from The Key
- 'New arrivals’ from the Bell Foundation.
- 'Pupils learning EAL’ from the National Associate for Language Development in the Curriculum (NALDIC)
- 'Great Idea: Translanguaging’ from The Bell Foundation
- 'Developing quality tuition: Effective practice in schools’ from the Department for Education
- Effective teaching of EAL learners’ from The Bell Foundation
- 'English as an additional language (EAL)’ on the Help for Early Years Providers website
- Presentation
- Good Practice Example
- Good Practice Example
- Good Practice Example
- Good Practice Example
- Interactive Quiz
- Evidence Opportunities
- Extended Learning
- Click to read this presentation on ‘Supporting children with English as an additional language’ by Christine Booth and Shipa Chowdhury.
- This article called ‘Tips for teaching English to Arabic speakers’ has been produced by Erica Dirou for the British Council.
- 'Writing in English as an additional language at Key Stage 2’ gives the findings of research by Professor Lynne Cameron and Dr Sharon Besser at the University of Leeds.
- The EAL Journal has an article ‘Practical ideas for using L1 in the classroom’ that looks at incorporating use of the first language in the curriculum.
- Click to read ‘Raising awareness of diversity in the language classroom’ by Ann Margaret Smith in the Teaching English website.
- 'Language acquisition: An overview’ is an article on the ¡Colorín Colorado! Website.
- Click to read this recent research from the University of Birmingham called ‘Study proposes practical solution to challenges faced by bilingual children’.
- The website called ‘Bilingualism’ supports those dealing with the challenges of bilingual learners needing speech and language therapy.
- Click to read through 'The EAL Toolkit: English as an additional language' produced by Naldic.
- Think And Challenge
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