Understand how to support bilingual learners to access the curriculum
This video produced by Teachers TV is called ‘Talking and EAL at Green End Primary’. The video examines how the school has focused on pupil talk to raise standards in writing.
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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