Theme: Creative arts approaches to language teaching and learning
Convenor/s: Justine Dakin
Host: NALDIC Zoom
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NALDIC’s Regional Interest Groups help teachers and other education professionals working with EAL learners to get together, stay informed about developments in the EAL field and share best practice.
Agenda & Speakers
Dr Jane Andrews, Professor of Education, UWE Bristol will talk about practical ideas for how the identities of children, young people and parents can be affirmed through creative arts approaches to language teaching and learning. She will discuss links between academic theory and tried-and-tested classroom practice with examples that colleagues can adapt to their learners’ contexts.
Dr Justine Dakin, Convener of Naldic’s West Midlands RIG, will present a case study describing a successful primary school project in which young learners of EAL created illustrated books in English and their home languages in collaboration with parents and other community members. The project enabled the children to combine and enhance their language skills while reflecting on their home languages and literacies.
RSVP Justine Dakin
West Midlands RIG Convenor – westmidlandsrig@naldic.org.uk
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