What's the word on reading? Teaching and supporting learners with EAL
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Contents
EDITORIAL | Beyond kind gestures | Christina Richardson … p 3
CONTRIBUTE TO NALDIC | How can you get involved? … p 6
LETTER FROM THE CHAIR | Continuing to move forward during a turbulent time … p 7
NEWS & EVENTS | pp 8-9
TEACHER EVENTS: University of Copenhagen Webinar Series … p 8
WORKSHOPS: Theatre of the Oppressed | English For Action … p 8
CPD: Refugees in Northern Ireland… p 9
SHORTS | Summaries of the latest research reports … pp 10-11
RIG REPORTS | Find out what’s been happening near you … pp 12-15
RIGs Update … p 13
Special Interest Groups (SIGs) … p 14
Convenor News … p 15
WORLD NEWS
A shared eagerness to learn | Laura Rodriguez on an exchange project between Argentina and India during the Covid-19 pandemic … p 16
Japan’s Linguistic Landscape | Fabian Bi Sheng SIAU on Japan’s ethnolinguistic diversity … p17
COVER FEATURE | EAL learners and reading … pp 19-35
Supporting and assessing EAL Learners’ reading development | Melanie Griffin … pp 20-22
Repositioning phonics to enhance provision for EAL | Judy Stanyard and Fiona Ranson … pp 23-25
Thinking beyond the ‘Reading Wars’ | Leandro Paladino and Christina Richardson … pp 26-27
Voices from the Classroom … pp 28-30
Embracing multiliteracies and mentor texts to bridge to school literacy | Harriet Crossley and Richard O’Neill … pp 31-32
Supporting EAL learners with reading at secondary school | A teacher educator and two experienced EAL teachers offer advice for trainees and new teachers … pp 33-35
CPD REPORTS
#1 Developmental Language Disorder and bilingual children: what you need to know | Carolyn Letts , Teresa Garrido-Tamayo, Elaine Ashton, Anastasia Trębacz … pp 36-39
#2 “They never include us” – The curriculum inclusion of Eastern European Roma pupils | Rachel Knowles … pp 40-41
#3 Modified Guided Reading in a Dutch Bilingual school | Marly de Geus … pp 42-43
#4 Vocabulary Acquisition Mediated by a Self-made, Visual Learning Tool | Tazreen Kassim-Lowe … pp 44-45
#5 Professional Development for EAL: Lessons from the US | Naomi Flynn … pp 46-47
ONLINE
The story continues… How digital multilingual story books can be used to decolonise (language) learning and provide a start point for exploring the Sustainable Development Goals | Leandro Paladino and Christina Richardson with Agustina Merlotti, Laura Rodríguez and Emiliano Tisano … pp 48-49
COMMENT
Jonathan Bifield on reading in a second language | The importance of activating background knowledge … pp 50-51
Eowyn Crisfield on School Language Policy | School Language Policy: Why do we need one? … pp 52-53
BOOKS
Foundations of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism | Multilingual Matters | 7th Edition Colin Baker and Wayne E Wright … p 55
Hamish Chalmers discusses making research meaningful | What questions do EAL teachers want EAL researchers to address? … pp 56-57
RESEARCH IN DEPTH
Why the Learning and Teaching of Diverse Critical Literacies Matters | Yvonne Foley, The University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK … pp 58-62
THE LAST WORD
Afghan new arrivals: a “warm welcome” | Kathryn Kashyap considers how schools can create welcoming environments … p 63
EDITOR | Christina Richardson
DEPUTY EDITORS | Leandro Paladino | Fiona Ranson | Rachel Knowles
ASSOCIATE EDITORS | Simeon Bates | Hamish Chalmers | Dianne Excell | Constant Leung | Vicky Macleroy | Frank Monaghan | Paul Nancarrow
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