NALDIC Executive member Naomi Flynn is currently undertaking a research project in Indiana, USA, to explore the implementation of a teaching approach known as Enduring Principles of Learning, with a view to learning what it… Read more → Continue Reading →
Letters from Indiana #1
NALDIC has learned that Ofsted is to abolish the role of National Lead for EAL, ESOL and Gypsy, Roma and Travellers. It has done so without consultation and, it appears, without regard for the impact… Read more → Continue Reading →
Following her recent research project, Natilly McCartney shares interesting insights into the reading strategies young EAL students are likely to adopt, and her findings into the different scaffolding abilities they make use of with their… Read more → Continue Reading →
Dr Farah Nazir My mother tongue didn’t come up in primary school; it was unseen and unheard. The boundaries of my language were set and that came with limited codeswitching* too, since my school was… Read more → Continue Reading →
NALDIC publishes plain language summaries of Master’s and PhD research. In this post Jasen Booton summaries his MSc dissertation, conducted as a part of his studies at the University of Oxford, on developing vocabulary for… Read more → Continue Reading →