Full Description
This book offers an evidence-based guide to EAL for everyone who works with multilingual learners. It provides a concise, helpful introduction to the latest research underpinning three key areas of EAL practice:
How children acquire additional languages
How language works across the curriculum
How you can establish outstanding EAL practice in your school.
Other key features include case studies from experienced EAL specialists, extensive reading recommendations for teachers who want to build on their knowledge, and a detailed chapter on Ofsted based on interviews with senior inspectors.
This book will prove an invaluable guide and support for everyone working with bilingual learners. In clear, short chapters it gives a thorough grounding in the evidence and principles needed to create outstanding EAL provision.
Contents
Figures, Tables and Case Studies
Acknowledgements
Abbreviations and Acronyms
Chapter 1: Introduction
Chapter 2: EAL in the National and International Context
Part 1: How Additional Languages Are Learned
Chapter 3: Key Principles and a Theory of Language
Chapter 4: Learning or Acquiring?
Chapter 5: Masses of Input
Chapter 6: Earlier isn't Necessarily Better
Chapter 7: Implicit and Explicit Learning
Chapter 8: First Languages Are Important for Learning English
Chapter 9: Pulling It All Together: Learning Trajectories and Second Language Pedagogy
Part 2: Language Across the Curriculum
Chapter 10: Five Principles for Language Across the Curriculum
Chapter 11: BICS and CALP
Chapter 12: Oracy: Talking and Learning
Chapter 13: Reading in a New Language
Chapter 14: Making Meaning in Writing: Field, Tenor and Mode
Chapter 15: Disciplinary Language, Disciplinary Knowledge
Chapter 16: Pulling it all Together: What Counts as Proficiency
Part 3: The EAL Specialist
Chapter 17: Getting to Grips with the Role
Chapter 18: Establishing Effective Assessments
Chapter 19: Welcoming Students
Chapter 20: Getting Connected
Chapter 21: Making Friends and Influencing People
Chapter 22: From Mono to Multi
Chapter 23: CPD for EAL Specialists
Chapter 24: For Everyone
References
Index
