An article by Nicola Davies and Dawn Lama from NALDIC Quarterly 4.2 (2007) which highlights the findings of a recent action research project into the uses of e-translation in the classroom.
An extract from our recent Working Paper 8 Teaching Isolated Bilingual Learners (2005) which identifies how ICT can be used to support bilingual learners who are learning in schools where few other pupils share their first language or EAL acquisition needs.
This study describes how Portsmouth developed a digital storytelling project focussing on use of ICT to support students with English as an additional language. The focus is on using EAL pupils as experts to tell stories from their own culture and recording retellings with visual support in English and first languages such as Urdu, Tamil, Nepali, Setswana. You can see some of the work at www.segfl.org.uk/emas/storytelling
This case study describes how Daniel Pick, an ICT teacher on his final teaching placement, developed a simple multilingual, multimedia resource to support new to English secondary pupils to become familiar with ICT themes and concepts
This case study describes how Chris Pim. specialist EAL teacher, worked collaboratively with a science teacher to use online translation to support a secondary beginner in English with tasks within a unit on environment.
This case study describes how Stephen Woulds has been developing media rich ESOL resources using Microsoft Office programs and features links to a series of 'how to' guides technical
NALDIC colleagues have contributed many of the above article, publications and vignettes. If you would like to
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“It’s too slow. It doesn’t make sense. I’ll ask my friend to help me – it’s better!”: Using e-translation in the classroom