Description

This edition of NALDIC Quarterly focuses on EAL teacher professionalism. There is summary of a recent article by Margaret Hawkins, which sets out the main influences on classroom practices from a sociocultural perspective. This is followed by practitioner responses to some of the issues. As well, there is a book review of a collection of papers on teacher education edited by Margaret Hawkins which also takes a sociocultural approach. It is hoped that this introduction to her work will attract colleagues to NALDIC’s annual conference in November where Margaret Hawkins will be the keynote speaker.

Contents

Editorial (page 1)
Charlotte Franson

View from the Chair (page 2)
Ian Jones

Policy, Practice and Research

Practitioners respond to Margaret Hawkins ‘Researching English Language and Literacy Development in Schools’. (page 3)
Charlotte Franson

Developing CD Rom based resources to help meet the needs of EAL learning in Design and Technology (page 6)
Dawn Lama

Postgraduate Certificate in the Teaching of English as an Additional Language (page 7)
Jannis Abley

Postgraduate Certificate in Bilingualism in Education (page 9)
Melanie Griffin

English 21 Consultation (page 11)
Frank Monaghan

A Professional Identity for the EAL Teacher (page 14)
Charlotte Franson

Pupil Portraits

Samiya (page 18)
Harcharan Panesar

Luisa (page 20)

Niro (page 21)

Refugee Children Update (page 22)

NALDIC News (page 25)

Reviews (page 31)

Resources (page 36)