EAL Coordinator series: Anna Czebiolko explores the benefits of co-curricular enrichment sessions When new English language learners arrive, the list of potential challenges is long: from the personal, social and cultural to the academic. New pupils… Read more → Continue Reading →
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Below is a crowd-sourced compendium of resources that can be used with EAL learners at home with their parents or independently during the school shutdown. I have tried to arrange these thematically, but have not… Read more → Continue Reading →
Devyani Sharma is Professor of Sociolinguistics at Queen Mary University of London. In this post she shares a fabulous resource developed by sociolinguistics at Queen Mary’s London to bring the reality of linguistic diversity and… Read more → Continue Reading →
Imagine being a Syrian or Iraqi teenager speaking only a few words of English, arriving in Australia as part of a refugee resettlement programme and starting your first day at school. Only, to your surprise,… Read more → Continue Reading →
Chris Michael tells us about his live stage show that reimagines the Charlie Chaplin silent film classic, The Immigrant, for a live theatre audience. Chris hopes that this show will demonstrate that theatre is for… Read more → Continue Reading →