Description

One of the unseen rituals of Conference takes place as members wend their merry way to stations and car-parks at the start of their journeys home. Members of the Executive gather together in the nearest watering-hole we can find and pore over the evaluation forms to see how the day has been received. Often it can be a nervous affair but this year, before we picked up even the first form from the pile, we knew that this had been one of the most successful conferences NALDIC has ever held in its fifteen year history.

There had been a real buzz of excitement as people gathered in Coventry University’s Technology Centre, where NALDIC 15 was being held. Nothing new about that, conference is always a great social event as colleagues meet and mingle, but there was no doubting the sense that something a little bit special was going to happen. And so it proved to be. The theme for this year was ‘EAL – a pedagogy for diversity’…

Contents

Editorial (page 3)
Frank Monaghan

View from the Chair (page 4)
Nicola Davies

Conference 2007 EAL – A Pedagogy for Diversity

Keynote Presentations

Spoken English/Written English – From Corpus to Curriculum to Classroom (page 7)
Ronald Carter

Personalising EAL (page 16)
Constant Leung

Workshop Presentations

Towards a more integrated pedagogy for second language teaching: reflections of newly qualified teachers of community languages (page 21)
Jim Anderson

Getting them together: equalities, cohesion and linguistic identity (page 26)
Robin Richardson

Primary National Strategy and the bilingual learner (page 29)
Judy Shepherd

Beyond Key Words or…..Was the dodo a sitting duck? (page 32)
Manny Vazquez

Poster Presentations

EAL not SEN (page 42)
Laura Else

A Community of Practice: EAL Family Learning Club at Churchfields School, Swindon (page 43)
Maria Neves

Qur’anic Literacy: its central role in the life of UK Muslim communities (page 44)
Andrey Rosowsky

Racing to English (page 45)
Gordon Ward

Address to NALDIC Conference (page 46)
Mick Waters

Other Articles and Features

Why the EMAG settlement is inadequate (page 47)
Jill Rutter

NALDIC News (page 50)