NALDIC held its 10th Annual Conference in London on November
23rd 2002. The theme of the conference was EAL in the UK
context: Looking forward, Looking outward. The keynote speaker
was Dr Chris Davison from the University of Hong Kong who spoke
about Partnership in teaching English as an additional language:
Looking forward, looking outward. The conference also
featured concurrent sessions from
Professor Mike Breen Implications of differences in mainstream
and EAL teachers' principles for teaching EAL students
Professor Viv Edwards Bilingual
Education
Professor Eve Gregory
Teaching for Real: Siblings as mediators of literacy in bilingual
families
Professor Brian Street
New Literacy Studies, Development Literacies and the National
Literacy Strategy: bridging the gaps - a contribution to EAL
perspectivesion: politics and pedagogy
The conference also featured afternoon seminars led by
Moira Brazil, Including refugee
pupils in: EAL circle time in schools
Jonathan Brentnall, Progress
in the Principality!
Lynne Cameron, Analysing the grammar of
writing
Angela Creese, The Way Teachers talk
Charlotte Franson, The EAL Professional in 2002
Constant Leung, Assessment
in EAL: old problems, new challenges
Geri Smyth, Where DO they get their ideas from?
Manny Vazquez, Reconsidering key principles in
EAL teaching
