English as An Additional Language EAL links and resources

This area contains a short listing of LA, national and international websites contributing to the development and understanding of policy and practice in the field of language development in the curriculum. To link your site details, contact the web editor

NALDIC provides a nework for the profession and particularly welcomes links with local EMA and language service websites. An A-Z contact listing of more than 75 LA services can be found here.

EMA and Language Service Sites
Bracknell Forest	Bracknell Forest's EAL service site is particularly useful for mainstream staff working with new EAL learners in mainly monolingual areas. Straightforward guidance for primary and secondary and a useful collation of resources.
CREDS	Cambridgeshire's Race Equality and Diversity website. many many teachers find the translations of key words particularly useful. Click on Teaching and learning and you will see a drop-down menu for lists of key word translations.
Cumbria	Cumbria's useful website including a downloadable inital support pack, particularly aimed at those new to working with newly arrived early stage learners of EAL.
EMAS4Success	EMAS 4 Success is the website sponsored by Bristol and North East Somerset, Bristol City, South Gloucestershire and North Somerset. It contains useful policy and project information, guidance and downloadable teaching and learning resources produced by the services, including a number for new to English pupils
Gloucestershire	Gloucestershire' s READS (Race Equality and Diversity Service) 'iRespect' website contains a wealth of resources promoting 'positive tolerance and active citizenship'.
Hampshire	Hampshire Ethnic Minority Achievement Service supports schools and families across Hampshire to 'raise ethnic minority achievement' through projects, training and advisory support.
Hounslow	Hounslow Language Service site with downloadable beginners programmes, multilingual stories, multilingual parents guides to bilingualism, multilingual maths key vocabularies, policies and information. Further resources available to purchase from the site
Islington	CEA Islington's ethnic minority achievement service website. The website has recently been updated and contains many new features along with downloadable resources and information relating to the achievement of groups such as Turkish and Bangladeshi heritage pupils.
Kensington and Chelsea	Kensington and Chelsea's new site features details of their new one year English language and literacy in curriculum learning course for 14-16 students and their downloadable language development strategy policy guidance.
Milton Keynes	Milton Keynes have made some EAL focused resources and guidance available on their website. These include a section relating to key visuals. Supporting Pupils with English as an Additional Language and Guidance on the Assessment of EAL Pupils who may have Special Educational Needs are both interesting.
Nottingham	Nottingham City's EMA service site featuring a series of EMA Guidance Documents giving an overview of EMA and useful guidance on target setting, recording progress, partnership teaching. It contains information on a range of resources relevant to African Caribbean heritage pupils and details of a project focusing on raising the achievement of African-Caribbean and Dual Heritage pupils as well as some work for beginners to English and a series of newsletters and updates.
Portsmouth	This site has been developed by the Porstmouth Ethnic Minority Achievement Service as 'a resource base for teachers, parents, educational agencies, students - indeed, anyone with an interest in bilingual education and ethnic minority achievement issues'. New features of the site include copyright free images for teaching materials as well a wealth of material of interest to EMA services and teachers.

Other UK Organisations
BAAL	British Association for Applied Linguistics provides a forum for people interested in language and the applications of linguistics. BAAL organises scientific meetings, and publishes a newsletter and conference proceedings.
inclusion	Becta's database of resources for teaching professionals, learners, parents and carers.
Collaborative Learning Project	Collaborative Learning Project -a teacher network to share resources that promote talkand provide access for EAL learners
CILT	CILT's community languages pages offers listings of community language examinations including GCSE and A Levels, and provides an extensive list of community language specific sites on the web
emaonline	The EMA online portal provides online access to EAL and bilingual teaching materials and resources through a contributory database
DCSF	DCSF Ethnic Minority Achievement Unit (EMAU) site which includes the latest information and guidance on raising achievement, regular newsletters, ethnic background data collection, and useful links to information and research on minority ethnic pupils educational achievement.
Multiverse	Multiverse is a TTA sponsored initial teacher education professional resource network. The site for student teachers and teacher educators contains resources concerned with enhancing the educational achievement of pupils from diverse backgrounds and includes an EAL strand
	National Association for the Teaching of English dedicated to good practice in the teaching of English.The association has a range of committees and standing working parties who address current concerns, disseminate knowledge and ideas, promote the work of the association and seek to represent the views of the association to national and local bodies.
National Literacy Trust	The National Literacy Trust's website and online database is provided on a free access basis to help everyone concerned with promoting literacy in the UK to work collaboratively.
Our Languages	The 'Our Languages' project supports community languages teaching and learning and aims to encourage community cohesion, celebrate pupil achievement and promote plurilingualism. Includes a useful search engine for locating schools teaching community languages
REAL	London Gifted & Talented is working with a national network of schools and local authorities to develop a bank of web-based guidance, tools, resources and multi-media training materials as part of a White Paper project. The aim is to improve the overall quality of gifted and talented education for students from Black and Minority Ethnic backgrounds and those with English as an additional language.
Teachernet	This Teachernet page contains entry level information about EAL within its 'inclusion' section.
teachers tv	Teachers TV is a television channel for everyone working in schools, from NQTs to headteachers, governors to support staff. The Teachers' TV website hosts some interesting programmes on EAL in primary and secondary settings, all of which are downloadable and editable for professional development purposes.
TES EAL	The EMAG forum page of the TES site is well used by mainstream teachers and features ideas for those with limited experience of EAL learners as well as an EAL forum.
Teacher Training Resource Bank	The is a one-stop web portal providing access to materials relevant to trainee teachers and the teacher education community. The website includes access to many NALDIC resources, along with resources from many other subject associations
Resourceunit	Resource unit site which provides information and links for over 2000 complementary, supplementary and mother tongue schools in the UK
Edu.bham.ac.uk	The University of Birmingham bilingualism database is intended for use by those interested or involved in the field of bilingualism whether they are professionals, researchers, students or parents of bilingual children. The database brings together many articles of interest to those working in the field.

International
TESOL	US professional organisation for teachers of English to speakers of other languages
ACTA	Australian national co-ordinating body for teachers of English to speakers of other languages
TESL CANADA	Canadian national federation of English as a Second Language teachers, learners and learner advocates.
NCELA	The National Clearinghouse for English Language Acquisition and Language Instruction Education Programs (formerly National Clearinghouse for Bilingual Education) collects, analyses, and disseminates information relating to the effective education of linguistically and culturally diverse learners in the U.S.
VCAA	Victoria Curriculum and Assessment Authority website. The ESL Companion to the Victoria Essential Learning Standards provides an overview of: the broad stages of English language development an outline of the major components of ESL curriculum a set of standards describing the expectations for ESL learners.
Centre for Applied Linguistics	CAL is a private, nonprofit organization working to improve communication through better understanding of language and culture. Established in 1959, CAL is headquartered in Washington and has earned a national and international reputation for its contributions to the fields of bilingual, English as a second language, literacy, and foreign language education; dialect studies; language policy; refugee orientation; and the education of linguistically and culturally diverse adults and children.