Description

This is the last edition of NALDIC Quarterly in its current format. The executive committee has decided that in the world of social media and fast- moving Local Authority changes, not to mention non-existent government policies, we need to be reaching out to a wider audience than EAL practitioners alone. The new publication will be launched in the Autumn…

Contents

Editorial (page 2)
Catharine Driver

View from the Chair (page 3)
Peta Ullman

Policy, Practice and Research

Language Assessment in Standards-Based Education Reform (page 5)
Kate Mencken, Thom Hudson and Constant Leung

Building Bridges (page 8)
Kamil Trzebiatowski

Whatever happened to partnership teaching? (page 12)
Catharine Driver

Screening and standardised testing for EAL Learners (page 16)
Hampshire EMTAS

Regional Groups news (page 18)
Dianne Excell and Robert Sharples

NALDIC News (page 22)

Conference 24 (page 23)