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Find out who sits on our Executive Committee and sub-committees. You can also see brief bios of those who are not on the NALDIC Executive.
The NALDIC Executive
NALDIC is led by the Executive Committee, which is made up of its nine membership-elected trustees and directors, supported by co-optees.
Find out more about the Executive Committee
Trustees
Victoria Murphy (Chair)
Hamish Chalmers (Vice-Chair; Editor, ealjournal.org & NALDIC Pulse)
Robert Sharples (Vice-Chair)
Nandhaka Pieris (Secretary)
Paul Butcher (Treasurer)
Naomi Flynn (Chair of Events Committee)
Yvonne Foley
Constant Leung (Chair of Publications Committee)
Christina Richardson (Editor, EAL Journal)
Co-opted Members
Tracey Costley
Eowyn Crisfield
Dianne Excell (RIGs & SIGs Coordinator)
Lisa-Maria Müller
Sally Zacharias
Events Committee
Naomi Flynn (Chair)
Paul Butcher
Tracey Costley (Conference Chair)
Eowyn Crisfield
Dianne Excell (RIGs & SIGs Coordinator)
Yvonne Foley (Training Lead)
Rosa Kwok
Diane Leedham
Victoria Murphy
Nandhaka Pieris
Christina Richardson (Editor, EAL Journal)
Publications Committee
Constant Leung (Chair)
Christina Richardson (Editor, EAL Journal)
Hamish Chalmers (Editor, ealjournal.org & NALDIC Pulse)
Elizabeth Chilton
Paul Nancarrow (Deputy Editor, EAL Journal)
Vicky Macleroy
Frank Monaghan
Lisa-Maria Müller
Nandhaka Pieris
Manny Vazquez
Business Development Committee
Co-opted Committee Members
Elizabeth Chilton (Publications)
Details pending.
Rosa Kwok (Events)
Rosa has supported the English proficiency development of bilingual students over the past decade. Across different roles, She is involved in enhancing the English proficiency level of bilingual speakers in primary, secondary and higher education settings.
She works as a research fellow at the University College London Institute of Education. Her research focuses on the interface between cognitive development and language impairment.
She has published in psycholinguistics and developmental psychology journals on the area of utilizing the bilingual speakers’ first language to scaffold their second language development.
Her current research focuses on the feasibility and efficacy of a computer-based intervention aimed at monolingual and bilingual children with poor reading comprehension ability. The end goal is to enhance the quality of life for children with language and reading problems.
Diane Leedham (Events)
Diane is an independent education consultant, trainer and writer with 30 years’ experience in teaching, teacher development/training and subject/school leadership cross phase EYFS to KS5.
She has mainstream subject teaching specialisms in English/ English Literature/Media Studies along with specialist knowledge and expertise in Multilingualism, Language and Literacy development, Family Literacy, Equalities and Cultural Competence and EAL strategies/ leadership.
Her professional roles include Head of English, whole school Literacy Lead, LA English/Literacy Consultant and EAL Advisory Team Leader.
She has a successful track record of raising achievement, both directly and indirectly and developing creative, research informed pedagogy which supports learner agency and progress.
Vicky Macleroy (Publications)
Vicky is a lecturer at Goldsmiths. She trained as a secondary teacher and coordinated the PGCE programmes in the school. In 2006, Vicky acted as a facilitator for one of the Learning Communities organising the programme for ‘Language across the curriculum’; investigating ways to support pupils to use language across the curriculum in ways that address issues of expressive development and technical accuracy.
Vicky was awarded Chartered London Teacher status after submitting evidence of a project carried out to support the language development of EAL pupils. This work was also presented at a LATE conference in 2007 on ‘Developing Approaches to Writing’.
Frank Monaghan (Publications)
Frank is Senior Lecturer in Education and Language Studies at the Open University. He has previously been a member of NALDIC’s Executive Committee and editor of NALDIC Quarterly.
He has run workshops and been a keynote speaker on a variety of topics, including EAL and phonics, literacy across the curriculum, language and mathematics; and EAL assessment. Before joining the OU, he had worked for twenty years as an EAL and mainstream English teacher in a large, multilingual comprehensive school in central London.
Paul Nancarrow (Publications)
Paul is an English Teacher and Associate Lecturer for the Open University. He has been EAL Coordinator, Literacy Coordinator and held other positions in a South London School. Currently he teaches English in a school in North London which has a number of international students. He is deputy Editor of NALDIC’s EAL Journal and writes regularly for the journal.
He is interested in linguistic diversity, linguistic and cultural barriers to accessing education and the value of cultural capital acquired through education. He holds Masters and a number of postgraduate qualifications in EAL, Literacy and Literature.
Manny Vazquez (Publications)
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