NALDIC's 15th Annual Conference featured Professor Ronald Carter from the School of English Studies and Humanities Research Centre at the University of Nottingham discussing Spoken English, Written English: From corpus to curriculum to classroom followed by Professor Constant Leung from Kings College, London who spoke about Personalising EAL- responding to a new policy initiative.
Dr Jim Anderson, Goldsmith’s College Community languages: policy, pedagogy and professional development
Robin Richardson, INSTED, Getting Them Together: equalities, cohesion and linguistic identity
Salman Al-Azami, Goldsmiths College The development of bilingual learning strategies in mainstream and community contexts
Judy Shepherd, Surrey ELMA The Primary National Strategy and the Bilingual Learner – Distinctive EAL practice leading a partnership approach to building capacity in schools, and at local authority level, to more effectively support the bilingual learner
Manny Vazquez, Hounslow Language Service - Beginners new to English or advanced learners? Vocabulary size is still the key”
A full description of keynote speeches can be downloaded here and details of poster presentations here. The conference report will be available on our conference report page in January.
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