Every teacher is a language teacher: Voices from the NALDIC 30 conference
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Contents
EDITORIAL | Interconnectedness, community and hope | Christina Richardson … p 3
POLICY POSITION | Every teacher is a language teacher: reality or an elusive desired state? … p 6
LETTER FROM THE CHAIR | Practices of hope and discourses of possibility … p 7
NEWS & EVENTS | pp 8-9
Language Hub | Good news for languages! … p 8
Conference | What is your school doing for Refugee Week? … p 9
Event | Schools of Sanctuary: Refugee Week Launch … p 9
Feedback sought on multilingual resources … p 9
MEET THE TEAM | On these pages you can find out about the team behind NALDIC … pp 10-11
SHORTS | Our regular round-up of mini summaries of recent and relevant research … pp 12-13
BOOKS | Multilingual Perspectives on Translanguaging | Edited by Jeff MacSwan | Published by Multilingual Matters | Reviewed by Leo Paladino … pp 12-15
WORLD NEWS
ZAMBIA, ARGENTINA , SIERRA LEONE & USA | Classrooms Around the World: An Educational Adventure | Laura Rodríguez, Thandiwe Zitha, Mark Kungbana and Adam Borchers share an initiative to bring classes together … pp 15-17
COVER FEATURE | NALDIC Conference 30: Every Teacher is a Language Teacher … pp 19-33
Keynote 1 | All teachers are language teachers – what does this mean in a context of coloniality and deep social inequality? | Professor Carolyn McKinney, School of Education, University of Cape Town … pp 20-21
Keynote 2 | Pushed and Pulled in Multiple Directions: EAL Provision between tensions, myths, needs, aspirations, and hope | Khawla Badwan, Reader in Applied Linguistics, Manchester Metropolitan University … pp 22-23
Papers | 15 papers … pp 24-31
Workshops | 4 workshops … pp 32-33
CPD REPORTS | pp 34-51
#1 A first language safe space | Katherine Laura Jessett discusses the benefits of a first language homework club … pp 34-35
#2 Teaching vocabulary for writing | Claire Frost provides an overview of her Master’s in Bilingualism dissertation … pp 36-37
#3 Why is my approach to supporting EAL learners not working? | Emmy Roberts shares what she learned as a trainee from revisiting some common EAL approaches and support strategies … pp 38-40
#4 EAL Pupils and the spatial organisation of classrooms | Dr Ellen Bishop shares her doctoral research on spatial factors shaping EAL pupil education, support provision, and social opportunities in school … pp 41-43
#5 Exploring language structures in origin and application | Tazreen Kassim-Lowe shares some early insights from her Phd journey … pp 44-46
#6 Training during the Pandemic – how has it impacted on teachers’ readiness for inclusive teaching? | A research group from King’s College London shares its findings … pp 47-51
EAL ESSENTIALS
Content and Language Integrated Learning (CLIL) | In this new edition of EAL Essentials, Jaimy Ottevanger reviews the basics of CLIL theory, discusses practical applications, and suggests sources to find out more about the model … pp 52-54
CHILDREN’S RIGHTS
School Admissions: Where are Rights of the child? | Fiona Ranson raises concerns over school admissions … pp 55-57
COMMENT
EAL Training in a changing world | Jonathan Bifield on the ever more pressing need for training … pp 58-59
Supplementary schools as “open” spaces | Kathryn Kashyap visits a supplementary school … pp 60-43
TEACHER VOICE
Subject Teachers and EAL (Multilingual) Learners | Lois Ashcroft reflects on the challenges faced by subject teachers as they integrate content and language learning for EAL pupils … pp 64-65
THE LAST WORD
HELD: the Hub for Education and Language Diversity | Melanie Cooke and Ben Rampton explain the work of the hub … pp 67
EDITOR-IN-CHIEF | Christina Richardson
DEPUTY EDITORS | Rachel Knowles | Fiona Ranson | Leandro Paladino
CONFERENCE EDITOR | Fazana Farook
ASSOCIATE EDITORS | Simeon Bates | Hamish Chalmers | Dianne Excell | Constant Leung | Frank Monaghan
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