Beyond the school gates: How home, family and community can all support and promote language development
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Contents
POLICY POSITION | Learning loss – the invisibility of EAL … p 6
LETTER FROM THE CHAIR | Rays of sunlight: positives after a challenging year … p 7
NEWS & EVENTS | Introducing NALDIC Special Interest Groups … pp 8-9
EVENT: Identity, Digital Storytelling and Linguistic Citizenship – Dr Bonny Norton, University of British Colombia … p 8
WEBINAR: Plurilingualism and Interculturality – University of Copenhagen … p 9
RESEARCH: Coming Up Soon: Letters from America … p 9
SHORTS | Research Shorts takes another bite-sized look at recent research in the field … pp 10-11
RIG REPORTS | Find out what’s been happening near you … pp 12-15
RIGs Update … p 13
Convenor News … p 14
Special Interest Groups (SIGs) … p 15
WORLD NEWS | Bolivia’s Linguistic Landscape | Beatriz Erazo on Bolivia’s indigenous languages … p 16
COVER FEATURE | Making the most of children’s learning opportunities outside school … pp 17-27
Promoting children’s language development: building parent-teacher relationships | Jaimy Ottevanger … pp 18-20
Supporting Home Learning for Children from Sanctuary Seeking Backgrounds | Megan Greenwood … pp 21-24
Abinibi Project: Intergenerational learning programme | Gbemisola Isimi … pp 25-27
CPD REPORTS
#1 Women’s Marginalised Identities: Identifying the Visibility Gap in Coursebooks | Amelia Kirkland … pp 28-29
#2 Language use by Hokkien migrants in London | Chunxi Zhang … pp 30-31
#3 Teaching English in Vietnam | Paul Stanton … pp 32-33
COMMENT
Identifying strategies to support home learning | Jonathan Bifield … pp 34-35
Working with families to support language development at home | Eowyn Crisfield … pp 36-37
COMMENT: AGAINST THE CURRENT
What does it mean when …? | Samira Moradi on reading between the lines … pp 38-39
SPOTLIGHT ON…
What might MFL teachers in inclusive classrooms with EAL students learn from Rosenshine’s Principles of Instruction? | Jane Jones … pp 40-42
BOOKS
Bilingual Families | Multilingual Matters | Eowyn Crisfield (2021) … p 44
RESEARCH IN DEPTH
Bilingualism in the family and children’s well-being: Why speaking the family language is not just a ‘nice to have’ | Lisa-Maria Muller, Katie Howard, Elspeth Wilson, Jenny Gibson, Napoleon Katsos … pp 46-50
THE LAST WORD
EAL and MFL: crossing the divide | Christina Richardson on re-thinking how we view languages … p 51
EDITOR | Christina Richardson
DEPUTY EDITORS | Elizabeth Chilton | Leandro Paladino | Fiona Ranson
ASSOCIATE EDITORS | Simeon Bates | Hamish Chalmers | Dianne Excell | Constant Leung | Vicky Macleroy | Frank Monaghan | Paul Nancarrow
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