Fazana Farook is a senior lecturer in teacher education at University of Hertfordshire, where she runs the PGCE and School Direct Secondary English course. She is also the EAL Lead across primary and secondary ITE at the university. Fazana started her teaching career as a secondary English teacher, working in linguistically and culturally diverse schools in inner and outer London, UK. She went on to became an EAL Coordinator, as well as a Lead Practitioner in English and Whole School Literacy and an ITE Lead. Fazana’s research interests focus on the relationship and interactions between multilingual communities and the UK education system. She is currently researching beginner teachers’ perceptions of (i) the concept of multilingualism and (ii) pupils identified as EAL as they train to become teachers in England.