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NALDIC ANNUAL ConferencE 16 - EAL: More than just good practice
Advance notice
DATE(S):
Saturday November 22, 2008
VENUE:
The Institute of Education, London
DETAILS:
NALDIC is pleased to welcome back Pauline Gibbons as the keynote speaker at our 16th Annual Conference. The conference will focus on good practice in EAL.
NALDIC ANNUAL ConferencE 15 - A pedagogy for diversity
DATE(S):
Saturday November 17, 2007
VENUE:
The Conference Centre, Coventry University Technology Park
DETAILS:
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. Speakers included:
Coventry Corporate Training Centre, Elm Bank, Mile Lane, Cheylesmore, Coventry, CV1 2NN
DETAILS:
A conference co-hosted between NALDIC and Multiverse for those who began to teach in Higher Education in 2007, whether on a PGCE, BA (Ed), GTP or on a SCITT scheme or similar. The conference was held in Coventry on Saturday October 13th 2007. The morning focussed on supporting students for their placements in schools and the afternoon on addressing EAL in HE-based courses. Sessions included:
Maggie Gravelle – New realities in schools and the new standards
Carrie Cable – Applying principles to practice for student teachers in primary schools
Constant Leung – Applying principles to practice for student teachers in secondary schools
Raymonde Sneddon – Introducing online resources from NALDIC, Multiverse and the TTRB
Kimberly Safford and Nicola Davies: Using digital video in initial teacher education
Welcoming learners for whom English is an Additional language
DATE(S):
Friday 22nd June 2007
VENUE:
Ushaw College Conference Centre, Durham
DETAILS:
A NALDIC regional conference for teachers and other staff working with newly arrived isolated learners of EAL.
Opening presentation
Helen Abji: Teaching Isolated Bilingual Learners
Followed by a choice of three practical workshop sessions from a selection including:
Claire Bennett, Durham EMTAS team 'Why I hate school' Perspectives and responses from KS3/4 newly-arrived pupils with EAL
Stuart Scott – How collaborative classrooms support new arrivals
Dawn Lama – Using Clicker to support bilingual pupils in primary schools
Sara Weightman, Durham EMTAS team – Ideas and Resources for newly-arrived pupils with EAL in the Early Years
Dawn Lama – Using ICT to support isolated learners in secondary schools
Fiona Ranson – Are you a language-friendly school?
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NALDIC Regional event CAMBRIDGE - NEW to working with isolated bilingual learners?
DATE(S):
Friday, 4 May, 2007
VENUE:
Cambridge Professional Development Centre, Foster Road, Trumpington, Cambridge, CB2 9NL
A NALDIC regional conference for teachers and other staff new to working with isolated newly arrived bilingual learner, jointly hosted with Cambridge LA. Steve Cooke, Chair of NALDIC and author of Collaborative Learning Activities in the Classroom: designing inclusive materials for learning and language development' presented the keynote address followed by a choice of 3 practical workshops:
Sofia Ali – DfES – New Arrivals Excellence Project
Dawn Lama – Using Clicker 5 to support EAL learners (Primary)
Dawn Lama - Using ICT to support EAL learners (Secondary)
Nene Infant School, Wisbech, Cambridgeshire – Holistic approaches for new arrivals
Stuart Scott – Supporting isolated bilingual learners through collaborative learning
Cilel Smith – Using My New School, Induction, Inclusion and Assessment Packs
NALDIC's 14th Annual Conference featured Professor Joe Lo Bianco from the University of Melbourne as the keynote speaker “Dilemmas and promises of difference, equality and language education”. The conference included perspectives on the education of pupils learning English as an additional language from around the British Isles. The conference explored the range of expectation and entitlements and considered how, in a situation of funding uncertainty,practitioners can help to ensure high expectations and full entitlement for EAL learners.
A full conference report will be available in April 2007
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Language in and through the curriculum NALDIC/CLP Practitioner Conference
DATE(S):
29th June 2006
VENUE:
Denewood Centre, Nottingham
SUMMARY:
A conference for practitioners who want to make learning work for newly arrived and continuing EAL learners was held by NALDIC and the Collaborative Learning Project. An increasing number of learners who are new to English are arriving in schools in all parts of the country. These learners need a school that is welcoming, and teaching that is ‘language conscious’. This conference will provide practical support to schools encountering EAL learners for the first time. It will provide examples of the best practice, and links to resources that will support your school development. Keynote speakers were Robin Richardson - INSTED and Angela Creese - University of Birmingham
Workshops included Sue Sheppy, Helen Perfect and Irene Wilkinson, Yvonne Wilkin and Liz Haslam, Steve Cooke and Stuart Scott and Amanda Gay
NALDIC Annual Conference 13-Beyond the Individual: EAL in social contexts
DATE(S):
Saturday November 19th 2005
VENUE:
University of Warwick
SUMMARY:
NALDIC's annual conference investigated socio-culutural aspects of EAL teaching. The key note speaker was Margaret Hawkins, Director, ESL and Bilingual Programs, Department of Curriculum and Instruction, University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Seminar speakers included Adrian Blackledge, University of Birmingham, Caroline Coffin, Open University,Angela Creese, University of Birmingham and Peter Martin, University of East London, Roxy Harris, Kings College London, and Christine Helot, University of Strasbourg
Sue Bennett, Tam Tam Tales Trust -Using Tam Tam Tales multi-language DVDs with children under 8 and their parents
Dr Felicity Breet, University of Sunderland -English as an Additional Language and English for Academic Purposes: sisters or just neighbours?
Dr Rose Drury, Open University - Young Bilingual Learners: at home and at school
Caroline Linse, Sookmyung Women's University, Seoul - EAL Primary School-Age Pupils: Facilitating the Home School Connection
Katie Scott, University of Bristol- Researching classroom interaction with EAL learners
Sue Walters, Lancaster University- Becoming a good pupil: how children become positioned as particular kinds of learners and how EAL disappears
While recent government documents have included more references to bilingualism and even some statements of aspirations, there is a lack of clarity about what should constitute a bilingual pedagogy, what this would mean for bilingual staff and what this would look like in practice. NALDIC is hosting a seminar to develop and define our position on the role of bilingualism in the teaching and learning of bilingual pupils and students in our schools. This seminar will take place over the weekend of 16th-17th July at Reading University and is free to participants.For further information contact events@naldic.org.uk
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NALDIC Seminar
Isolated Learners
DATE(S):
March 18th-20th 2005
VENUE:
Warwick University
SUMMARY:
NALDIC is hosting an invitational seminar to consider the particular needs of EAL professionals working with isolated learners. This invitational NALDIC members seminar will take place over the weekend of 18th-20th March at Warwick University and is free to participants.For further information contact events@naldic.org.uk
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NALDIC ITE SEMINAR
For new lecturers who want to find out more about English as an Additional Language
DATE(S):
February 5th 2005
VENUE:
Imperial College, London
SUMMARY:
NALDIC is developing an initiative with TTA funding to help new ITE staff develop and share understandings about preparing their students for teaching EAL learners in UK schools. The 2004 cohort met at a NALDIC seminar day in London on Saturday 5th February 2005. Further details of the event can be found at the NALDIC ITTSEAL site.
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NALDIC Annual Conference 12
Talking it Through: Speaking, listening and learning English as an additional language
DATE(S):
November 20th 2004
VENUE:
SOAS, London
SUMMARY:
NALDIC hosted a major conference on talk and English as an additional language on 20th November 2004. The keynote speaker was Professor Merrill Swain, from the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education of the University of Toronto. Merrill Swain is a major contributor to the field of second language acquisition and her current research focuses on the role of collaborative dialogue in second language learning. She was joined by Professor Jill Bourne from the University of Southampton who argued that children experienced an expansive or restrictive education depending on whether they were categorised as ‘bright’ or ‘slow, with EAL pupils often doomed to a restrictive educational diet. Dr. Priscilla Clarke, a prominent Australian early years is educator and researcher discussed the need to develop positive environments to promote listening and speaking in the early years.
Jennifer Jenkins from Kings College London discussed how EAL learners in schools are expected to learn to use ‘standard’ pronunciation (itself a very vague and under-defined concept) by osmosis, while little allowance is made for their own second or additional language accents, and no consideration is given to the well-established link between accent and identity. Professor Neil Mercer from the Open University described how he and colleagues have worked closely with teachers in creating a teaching approach called 'Thinking Together', which uses curriculum-related activities to develop children’s skills in communicating, thinking, and learning. Delegates also heard about ‘Talking Partners’ a structured oral language programme developed in Bradford as part of an integrated approach to raise levels of achievement for EAL learners and about research into the impact of SATs testing in the primary sector on the talk of bilingual pupils in the classroom
Contributors to the conference plenary debate called for the government to give far greater attention to the first and additional language education of EAL and bilingual learners in schools today.
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NALDIC SUMMER
CONFERENCE 2004
Not just how but
why: EAL and ICT in the multilingual classroom
DATE(S)
May 22nd 2004
VENUE
Ealing CLC London
SUMMARY
NALDIC
hosted a conference for members on ICT practice which supports
EAL and bilingual pupils in their distinctive situation.
NALDIC welcomed Dr Rupert Wegerif from the Faculty of Education
at the Open University as our keynote speaker. There was a
choice of morning and two afternoon workshop sessions focussing
on illustrating the potential of newer technologies to support
the education of EAL learners.
Assessing children's
knowledge and use of their first language
DATE(S):
January 20th 2004
VENUE:
Putteridge Bury Conference Centre,
Luton
SUMMARY:
NALDIC
hosted an invitational members workshop on assessing children's knowledge and use of their
first language for educational purposes to
identify examples and principles of good practice in the school-based
and external assessment of children's knowledge and use of
their first language for educational purposes. The conference
was held at Putteridge Bury Conference Centre, Luton on 20th
January 2004 and was free to participants.
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NALDIC ANNUAL CONFERENCE 11
Building a Framework for Success: Developing Practice and Principles
in EAL Teaching
DATE(S):
November 8th 2003
VENUE:
The Manchester Conference Centre, UMIST, Manchester
SUMMARY:
NALDIC held its 11th Annual Conference
on November 8th and the Manchester Conference Centre.
The conference addressed some of the key issues in the current
UK situation through a combination of seminars, demonstrations
and workshops. The keynote speaker was Deborah Short
from the Centre for Applied Linguistics in Washington.
NALDIC SUMMER CONFERENCE 2003
Bilingual Education and UK schools:
Rethinking Perspectives
DATE(S):
June 14th 2003
VENUE:
London
SUMMARY:
NALDIC held a summer conference
in London on June 14th 2003. The theme of the conference was
Bilingual Education and UK schools: Rethinking Perspectives.
Professor Stephen Krashen spoke convincingly concerning the
positive impact of bilingual education on pupils' performance
in English and their first language in his keynote address The
Two Goals of Bilingual Education and Why They Are Both Important.
Viv Edwards noted
that whilst Welsh, Gaelic and Irish medium education has been
officially endorsed, there has been little Government support
for bilingual education programmes in schools in answer
to her question Is life really too short to learn German? In a lively plenary debate Mohammed Abdelrazak, Stephen
Krashen, Terry Lamb, Amy Thompson and Dr Raymonde Sneddon and
participants considered a range of issues and made recommendations
which NALDIC will be taking to the DfES.
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NALDIC CONFERENCE 10
Developing EAL Perspectives: NALDIC's Next 10 Years
DATE(S):
November 23rd 2002
VENUE:
London
SUMMARY:
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.
JOINT NALDIC / NUT CONFERENCE Reasserting Professionalism: developing an agenda for teachers
working for minority ethnic pupil achievement
DATE(S):
October 7th 2002
VENUE:
London
SUMMARY:
A second conference jointly organised by NALDIC
and the NUT was held at the NUT headquarters in London on 7
October 2002. The theme was Reasserting Professionalism: developing
an agenda for teachers working for minority ethnic pupil achievement.
NALDIC CONFERENCE 9 EAL in context: Pedagogy, Learner identity and Race Equality
DATE(S):
November 17th 2001
VENUE:
University of Birmingham
SUMMARY:
NALDIC held its 9th Annual Conference on November
17th 2001 at the University of Birmingham. The theme of
the conference was EAL in context: Pedagogy, learner identity
and race equality. The keynote speaker was Professor Jim
Cummins from the University of Toronto.
JOINT UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL / NALDIC CONFERENCE Exploring Diversity in Assessment: Challenges for English
as an additional language
DATE(S):
September 28th 2001
VENUE:
University of Bristol
SUMMARY:
The University of
Bristol and NALDIC held a joint conference on assessment in
collaboration with MGSS and BEMAS. The conference took place
on Friday 28th September 2001
NALDIC CONFERENCE 8 Advancing EAL learning: Theory into Practice
DATE(S):
November 28th 2000
VENUE:
SOAS, London
SUMMARY:
NALDIC held its
8th Annual Conference at SOAS. The theme of the conference
was Advancing EAL learning: theory into practice. The
keynote speakers were Pauline Gibbons and Berhard Mohan
