Description

This edition contains edited versions of transcripts of presentations given by Constant Leung, David Little, Jean Conteh and Simon Gibbons.

Contents

A View from the Chair (page 2)
Yvonne Foley

The new National Curriculum for English: a NATE perspective (page 4)
Simon Gibbons

Language and Communication in School Curriculum (page 11)
Constant Leung

EAL in the mainstream classroom: what is ‘academic’ English (page 18)
David Little

Different ways of saying the same thing (page 25)
Jonathan Brentnall

Putting the ‘literate’ into scientific literacy (page 33)
Manny Vazquez

A feast of stories (page 40)
Dan Lea

How technology can be used to promote academic use of language across the curriculum (page 50)
Astrid Gouwy and Chris Pim

New opportunities and challenges for EAL (page 56)
Jean Conteh

Mathematical Word Problems as a Specific Genre (page 61)
Steve Cooke

Addressing the needs of advanced bilingual learners (page 73)
John Waggott