NALDIC CONFERENCE 8 Report
Advancing EAL learning: theory into practice
Pauline
Gibbons: "Teaching as mediation: scaffolding second
language learning through classroom interaction" considered
ways in which EAL could be advanced by individual teachers, and
focused on the nature of teacher-pupil talk. In particular, she
referred to ways in which, in the context of the curriculum,
classroom talk could be enabling not only of curriculum learning
but also of second language development. (Word Document)
Bernard
Mohan: "Some insights from the Vancouver Project on
Language/Content Integrations" disseminated the work of
two large-scale projects carried out in schools in the Vancouver
district of British Columbia developing integrated approaches
to language and content learning in both the primary and secondary
sector. (Word Document)
