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; Editor, EAL Journal)
Paul Butcher  (Treasurer)
Nandhaka Pieris (Secretary)
Dianne Excell  (RIGs & SIGs Coordinator)
Constant Leung  (Chair of Publications Committee)
Yvonne Foley
Christina Richardson  (Chair of Events Committee; Deputy Editor, EAL Journal)

Co-opted Members

Naomi Flynn
Rosa Kwok
Diane Leedham
Chris Pim
Sally Zacharias

Christina Richardson  (Chair)
Paul Butcher
Dianne Excell
Naomi Flynn
Yvonne Foley
Rosa Kwok
Nandhaka Pieris
Chris Pim
[Robert Sharples]

Constant Leung  (Chair)
Robert Sharples  (Editor, EAL Journal)
Hamish Chalmers  (Editor, ealjournal.org & NALDIC Pulse)
Paul Nancarrow  (Deputy Editor, EAL Journal)
Christina Richardson  (Deputy Editor, EAL Journal)
Catharine Driver
Diane Leedham
Vicky Macleroy
Frank Monaghan
Victoria Murphy
Nandhaka Pieris
Manny Vazquez
Sally Zacharias

Catharine Driver (Publications)

Catharine has been a member of NALDIC since its inception. She has been a NALDIC Executive,  a member of the Publications Committee, has edited and contributed to NALDIC Quarterly.

She is an independent consultant and trainer for English as an Additional Language and Academic Literacy. She is also the Secondary school adviser for the National Literacy Trust and is an associate of the EAL Academy, Hounslow Language Service and NASSEA. She is the co-author of ‘100 Ideas for Secondary Teachers: Supporting EAL Learners’ published by Bloomsbury.

Catharine is also a NALDIC Associate.

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 a Special Needs Teacher working with children with Autism in a school with a high proportion of EAL children. He has worked in education all his working life. First as an administrator for the London School of Economics and Political Science, then as a secondary School English, and Literacy and EAL Co-ordinator. He is also an Access Tutor for the Open University teaching Arts and Language and Social Science access courses. He has also taught children’s literature for the Open University.

He is interested in linguistic diversity, linguistic and cultural barriers to accessing education and the value of cultural capital acquired through education. He holds the Institute of Education’s postgraduate certificate in Teaching English as an Additional Language and postgraduate diploma in Bilingual Learners in Urban Settings, and MAs in Children’s Literature and Creative Writing.

Manny Vazquez (Publications)

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