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The classroom support strategies map directly onto the relevant individual descriptors within the EAL Assessment Framework for Schools and provide highly practical ways to support EAL learners at each stage of their language development.
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Principle 1. Multilingualism as an asset. Encouraging learners to use and develop their full linguistic repertoire is highly beneficial. Learners’ multilingualism – their ability to listen, speak, read and view, and/or write in one or more languages and/or scripts beyond English – is a valuable resource.
Jun 27, 2021 · The Deployment and Impact of Support Staff (DISS) project examined TA support for pupils with SEND (Webster et al. Citation 2010) and revealed such unintentional consequences as greater separation from teachers and the curriculum as a result of missed opportunities, due mainly to separate workstations, and limited inclusive experiences for some ...
- Jessica Losberg, Paula Zwozdiak-Myers
- 2021
- Language as A Resource
- Signs of Change
- Using Multilingual Approaches: Moving from Theory to Practice
- Funds of Knowledge in The Language Classroom
- Purposeful Translanguaging
Multilingual classrooms are a growing phenomenon around the world, as a result of rapid increases in global mobility and migration. Within these classrooms, students may have different linguistic and cultural backgrounds, may speak one language at home and another language at school, or be learning the language of instruction as an additional langu...
Happily, in recent years, publications, conferences and professional development materials have advanced thinking about the medium of instruction and ways to approach teaching that challenge the “national/official language-only” view.
A new British Council publication, Using multilingual approaches: Moving from theory to practice, reflects the growing body of research evidence showing that preventing learners from using their home languages in the English language classroom not only impedes learning and denies their linguistic human rights, but also loses valuable opportunities ...
It has long been recognised that one of the key characteristics of high-quality teaching is the ability of teachers to engage students’ prior understandings and experiences and background knowledge. This prior knowledge is encoded in their home languages, and therefore it is vital that teachers facilitate the transfer of both concepts and skills fr...
One of the most successful approaches to bilingual teaching and learning has been the purposeful and simultaneous use of two languages in the same classroom, a process that is referred to as translanguaging. The activities in this collection break new ground in being designed to enable teachers to constantly draw on and make use of students’ emerge...
Feb 19, 2021 · An effective collaborative partnership can benefit teachers (i.e., special and general education) by providing a high-quality language-learning environment that increases the potential for students to experience academic, social, and behavioral success ( Da Fonte & Barton-Arwood, 2017; Mashburn et al., 2008 ).
- Erin Stehle Wallace, Reed Senter, Nicole Peterson, Kelsey T. Dunn, Jason Chow
- 2021
Preview. Languages are now a more important part of primary education than ever before, and all successful primary teachers need to understand the principles that support good language teaching and learning. This second edition provides a coherent overview of teaching and learning languages, combining practical strategies for use in the ...
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Feb 9, 2022 · Lastly, even if we cannot speak our students’ languages, by welcoming them to use those languages we create a space where assets and cultures are recognized and honored. Years from now, when MLs may have forgotten what we’ve taught, they will still recall with affection how we made them feel. Start with embracing all languages in class.
