Description

This edition focuses on NALDIC’s 16th Annual Conference. Conference 16 was entitled, EAL: more than just good practice and it more than lived up to its billing as our keynotes, seminar and workshop speakers delivered a wide-ranging and stimulating programme of events that produced an extremely pleasing set of evaluations from those attending.

We were treated to two excellent keynote addresses with our good friend Pauline Gibbons, Associate Professor, Language and Literacy, University of Technology, Sydney, returning to NALDIC for a third time, getting us off to a great start with her talk on Challenging Pedagogies: more than just good practice, in which she described the findings from a recent research project in
Australian schools looking at EAL pedagogy in science. In the afternoon, we were treated to a session by our new friend (and member!) Candace Harper, Assistant Professor, School of Teaching and Learning, University of Florida who talked about reading instruction and why, for EAL students, it requires more than just good practice. We are delighted to bring you a transcript of Pauline’s session and a paper Candace has written for us covering the topic of her talk.

Contents

Editorial (page 2)
Frank Monaghan

View from the Chair (page 3)
Nicola Davies

Keynote Presentations

Challenging Pedagogies: More than Just Good Practice (page 4)
Pauline Gibbons

Reading Instruction: More than ‘Just Good Teaching’ (page 15)
Candace Harper

Workshops

Acquisition of English as an Additional Language through Problem-Based Learning (page 21)
Diane Boothe

The Home Languages Project (page 24)
Samina Jaffar and Navneet Padda

Session Reports

Language and content integration in primary science (page 27)
Kim Baker

Meeting the challenges of subject English (page 28)
Beverley Derewianka

ESOL in the lifelong learning sector (page 28)
Helen Sunderland

Assessing EAL learners: cross-curricular Descriptors (page 29)
Constant Leung and Katie Scott

Can a task-based approach turn The core curriculum into a good EAL provider? (page 30)
Rosemary Mitchell Schuitevoerder

Refugee Children Update (page 34)
Rona Grabowski

NALDIC News (page 34)