Theme: All About Me
Convenor/s: Sian Ansell & Lynsey Weston
Host: NALDIC Zoom
NALDIC Special Interest Groups (SIGs) have developed in response to requests from members who want to raise the profile of EAL and bilingualism in a specific area of interest.
Speakers/Agenda
Research and discussions on valuing home languages from parents and practitioner’s perspectives, the guest speaker, Denise Amankwah will present her findings on the language practices and attitudes of early years professionals and bilingual African parents living in the UK
Following Denise’s presentation we will invite the audience to contribute their own experiences and best practice in small groups. Please come with ideas ready to share!
Denise currently works as a Speech and Language Advisor at Speech and Language UK (formerly known as I CAN). This involves training and supporting Early Years Practitioners and parents to deliver early language interventions. Her previous roles include working as a Senior Early Years Practitioner, a (remote) Early Years teacher for an online school and she has had many Research Assistant roles with a number of universities working on projects focused on early language, bilingualism and sociolinguistics. Denise completed her Masters in Education, specialising in Language and Literacy and would like to share the findings from her dissertation. This October, she begins her PhD in Applied Linguistics at the University of Essex.
*Entry to the Zoom waiting room will be limited to 100 on a first come first served basis.
Registration
Early Years SIG Convenors
Sian Ansell & Lynsey Weston
EarlyYearsSIG@naldic.org.uk