Dianne has worked with EAL students in many of Bradford’s inner city schools for more than 25 years and was, until she recently retired, EAL and Literacy Consultant at Feversham College – the first Voluntary-Aided Muslim girls’ secondary school in the country.
She has served on NALDIC committees for 15 years and currently co-ordinates NALDIC’s Regional Interest Groups, being responsible for the Yorkshire and Humberside RIG. She has contributed several articles to NALDIC Quarterly and EAL Journal and was part of a NALDIC team which produced guidance for English teachers working with students learning EAL at GCSE for the publishers Pearson-Heinemann.
In recent years she has lectured on EAL to PGCE students and NQTs both in the UK and abroad.