Description

This edition focuses mainly on NALDIC’s 14th Annual Conference held at SOAS on November 11th last year. For this conference, we departed somewhat from our usual format: our theme was “Advocacy, Entitlement and Expectations”, and in view of current concerns about the continuation of sound specialist EAL teaching in view of possible funding changes post 2008, we wanted the conference to help NALDIC to develop our priorities and enable us to shape our work for the next few years. We therefore invited speakers from across the British Isles to share with us their perspectives on the education of bilingual learners and explore ways in which practitioners can ensure high expectations and full entitlement for EAL learners in future.

Contents

Editorial (page 2)
Helen Abji

View from the Chair (page 3)
Steve Cooke

Conference 2006 – Advocacy: Entitlement, Inclusion and Expectations

Stats and Stories – How to be an advocate for EAL (page 5)
Jo Lo Bianco

English as an additional language policy: Issues of inclusive access and language learning in the mainstream (page 16)
Constant Leung

Supporting Community Language Learners in Scotland (page 27)
Joanna McPake

The Need for a Long-Term, Comprehensive Approach to EAL Instruction in Irish Schools (page 30)
Matthew Wallen

NALDIC News (page 37)

Conference Reports (page 43)