Description

This special issue of NALDIC Quarterly focuses on the research agenda in EAL. It seeks not so much to set that agenda as to provide guidelines for creating both a structure and an infrastructure for that such an agenda.

The research agenda

In my discussions with colleagues in the field, when I was putting forward the idea of this special issue, I was alerted to the fact that NALDIC had early on identified the need for EAL-specific research—while relevant research was being carried out elsewhere in the world, in the UK it was down to the EAL community to find what it could in the research being carried out by others. Indeed, NALDIC had explored the area and drafted a statement about where specific research was needed.

Contents

Editorial (page 3)
Simon Murison-Bowie

Research Issues

Online communities and the research agenda (page 6)
Nicola Davies

How research can link policy and practice: bilingualism as a learning resource (page 10)
Charmian Kenner, Mahera Ruby, Eve Gregory and Salman Al-Azami

Building a research resource for London (page 14)
Dina Mehmedbegovic

Research Reports

‘Miss, who needs the languages of immigrants?’ A study in attitudes to bilingualism in England and Wales (page 15)
Dina Mehmedbegovic

Investigating multilingualism in complementary schools in four communities (page 20)
Angela Creese with Taşkin Baraç, Arvind Bhatt, Adrian Blackledge, Shahela Hamid, Li Wei, Vally Lytra, Peter Martin, Dilek Yağcioğlu-Ali, Chao-Jung Wu

New Ethnicities and Language Use: an interview with Roxy Harris (page 24)
Constant Leung

‘Valuing what is rather than what might be’: an interview with Jennifer Jenkins (page 28)
Simon Murison-Bowie

The missing factor from (nearly all) research agendas for EAL students (page 31)
Stephen Krashen and Sy-Ying Lee

Raising the achievement of Somali pupils in schools (page 34)
Feyisa Demie, Kirstin Lewis and Christabel McLean

Gifted and Talented statistics: PLASC data and EAL (page 35)
Frank Monaghan

Reviews

Claire Kramsch (ed.): Language Acquisition and Language Socialization. Continuum. 2002. (page 39)
Angela Creese

Naoko Morita: ‘Negotiating participation and identity in second language academic communities’.
TESOL Quarterly 38/4. 2004. (page 41)
Tracey Costley

Margaret Hawkins: ‘Becoming a student’. TESOL Quarterly 39/1. 2005. (page 42)
Frank Monaghan

Georgette Ioup: ‘Age in second language development’ in E. Hinkel (ed.): Handbook of Research in Second Language Teaching and Learning. Lawrence Erlbaum Associates. 2005. (page 45)
Amy Thompson

Zoltàn Dörnyei: Research Methods in Applied Linguistics. Oxford University Press. 2007. (page 46)
Constant Leung

Gayle Christensen and Petra Stanat: Language Policies and Practices for Helping Immigrants and Second-Generation Students Succeed. Migration Policy Institute and Bertelsmann Stiftung. 2007. (page 47)
Frank Monaghan