Description

We are pleased to include two articles based on presentations at NALDIC’s 16th Annual Conference ‘EAL; more than just good practice’. The first is a transcript of Beverly Derewianka’s seminar which explores the challenges of scaffolding the use of interpersonal language in writing response texts in English through an examination of different responses on the web to a media text. The second is an article based on Catherine Wallace’s seminar in which she argues for the importance of providing opportunities for students to engage with ‘whole texts’ as opposed to fragments and the development of close textual analysis and critical literacy as key contributors in empowerment – as readers and citizens.

Contents

Editorial (page 2)
Carrie Cable with Stuart Scott

View from the Chair (page 3)
Nicola Davies

Policy, Practice and Research

Meeting the Challenges of Subject English; Scaffolding the use of interpersonal language (page 4)
Beverly Derewianka

EAL learners and Critical Reading (page 12)
Catherine Wallace

How the Power of Reading Project at CLPE is supporting children with English as an Additional Language (page 18)
Olivia O’Sullivan

Children as Writers (page 21)
Aysha Kamal

Classic texts, the moving image and pupils with EAL (page 26)
Valerie Coultas

Problematizing Shakespeare in Curriculum English (page 29)
Tim Kearns

View from the Bridge (page 32)
Stuart Scott

Four priorities for the development of the EAL workforce in schools – supporting evidence (page 35)
David Mallows, Dina Mehmedbegovic and Richard Andrews

NALDIC News (page 40)

Reviews (page 45)