Description

This edition of NALDIC Quarterly includes a focus on community languages. Leena Robertson contributes a vignette of one child’s experience of different language learning contexts, Ranna Jahanshahi and Parminder Johal write about Iranian and Panjabi complementary schools in London and Leicester, Punam Saini describes the aims of the Community Languages Network, and we include information about a major survey of community languages provision being conducted by CILT. Colleagues who have sought guidance of ICT for community languages will find Steve Cushion’s information about keyboard layouts and software enlightening. His article illustrates that ICT for community languages is not just a technical matter; it relates to human rights and to the value placed on all languages. Also related to ICT and language learning is the information provided by Grethe Heen about a European project. In addition we present a TESOL position statement on Multilingualism, an ‘essential weblist for community languages’, and included in the ‘reviews’ section is a significant new book on multilingual classrooms. The importance of national and community languages is also reflected in Dina Mehmedbegovic’s account of an international symposium she attended in New York on ‘Imagining Multilingual Schools’.

Contents

Editorial (page 1)
Hugh South

View from the Chair (page 2)
Ian Jones

The NALDIC Interview: (page 4)
Pauline Gibbons

Policy, Practice and Research

Ikram’s day (page 8)
Leena Robertson

Learning at a Supplementary School (page 9)
Parminder Johal

Our Sanctuary (page 11)
Ranna Jahanshahi

Learning Community Languages: What’s happening in England? (page 12)
CILT

Raising the Profile of Community Languages (page 15)
Punam Saini

TESOL Position Statement on Multilingualism (page 15)

ICT and Community Languages (page 16)
Steve Cushion

ICT and bilingual pupils (page 19)
Grethe Heen

Essential Weblist – Community Languages (page 20)
Nicola Davies

Syllabus and methodology in EAL (page 23)
Simon Murison-Bowie

Conference reflections (page 25)
Dina Mehmedbegovic

Pupil Portraits

Olamide (page 27)
Ida Instone

Fabio (page 30)
Vicki Rabicano

NALDIC News (page 34)

Refugee Children Update (page 39)

Reviews (page 42)

Projects and Resources (page 46)