Peta Ullmann - Chair
Peta has worked cross-phase in the field of EAL and race equality as a teacher and as an adviser for over 30 years in Leeds, Bradford, Greater Manchester and Essex. Until 2015 she was the manager of the Ethnic Minority and Traveller Achievement Service in Essex. Peta is currently working as a member of the education and lifelong learning service team in Essex leading on ethnic minority and Traveller achievement. She has been a member of NALDIC since its inception and was co-opted to the executive committee in January 2006. She was elected to the executive committee in 2007. She became the Association's honorary secretary in 2010 and is the Chair of NALDIC.
Paul Butcher - Treasurer
Paul is an experienced practitioner in the field of EAL and minority ethnic achievement. He worked as a Local Authority consultant for many years, providing support for schools and developing strategy and policies across the LA to increase the access and raise the achievement of children and families with EAL. He has been a NALDIC member for many years and has attended numerous conferences and association meetings, including being involved in some of the initial NALDIC developments. Paul has a lot of experience in the organisation of training events and conferences, as well as managing budgets and IT and contributes to the Association’s work in this area.
Charlotte Franson - Vice Chair
Charlotte has worked for most of her career in the field of language education, here in England and elsewhere. She taught with and managed ESL advisory services in the London region, worked as an LEA inspector, and implemented the first Bilingualism and Education MA programme at the University of Birmingham. At Canterbury Christ Church University she developed and implemented a taught MA in Teaching English as an Additional Language, and contributed to the MA TESOL and other language and education programmes. Charlotte is a founding member of NALDIC, and has taken several executive committee roles in the ensuing years. She has contributed to a number of the Association's publications and her particular interest is in second language pedagogy and teacher education.
Sara Green - Secretary
Sara has worked in the field of EAL since 1985, first as a peripatetic teacher in secondary schools in several ILEA authorities and then in a variety of advisory roles working cross-phase in London and Kent and in senior management posts within LEA central services. She was Head of the Primary and Secondary EAL teams in Newham (1994-99) and Language Development Service in the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea (1999-2012) where she led the development of EAL assessment and content language EAL courses. Sara currently leads the Gateway Teaching School Alliance at Churchfield Primary School in North London and ITT, CPD and Research and Development strands of work in particular. She also leads EAL across Churchfield and Houndsfield at The Field Federation. Sara has been a committed NALDIC member since 1994 and is NALDIC Secretary and Chair of the NALDIC Events Committee.
Dianne Excell - Regional Groups Co-ordinator
Dianne has worked with EAL students in many of Bradford’s inner city schools for more than 25 years and is currently EAL and Literacy Consultant at Feversham College - the first Voluntary-Aided Muslim girls’ secondary school in the country. Through observation of students and analysis of their work, she has developed strategies to help individual students unlock more of their potential and advises colleagues on how to use literacy to raise attainment across the curriculum. She has served on NALDIC committees for 12 years and currently co-ordinates NALDIC’s Regional Interest Groups, being responsible for the Yorkshire and Humberside RIG. She has contributed several articles to NALDIC Quarterly and was part of a NALDIC team which produced guidance for English teachers working with students learning EAL at GCSE for the publishers Pearson-Heinemann. In recent years she has lectured on EAL to PGCE students and NQTs.
Yvonne Foley
Yvonne worked for a number of years as an English language teacher in Taiwan and the UK. She initially started teaching English to adults in private colleges in Taiwan and later took up a position as an ESL teacher within an international school and then as Director of Studies within an international school in Taipei, Taichung and Kaoshiung. When Yvonne returned permanently to the UK six years ago, she taught English for business and academic purposes and then took up a position as a Lecturer in Language Teaching at the University of Edinburgh. She is the Programme Director for MSc TESOL and also teaches on the PGDE Secondary programme. As well as being a committee member of NALDIC, Yvonne is also a co-director of the Centre of Education for Racial Equality in Scotland (CERES).
Catharine Driver
Catharine has been a member of NALDIC since its inception. In the last five years she has been a member of the publications committee and contributed to NALDIC Quarterly. She now works part time as an EAL advanced skills teacher and is also an independent EAL and Literacy consultant. Before that she worked as teacher, adviser and consultant in schools and local authorities in London and the South East for over 20 years. Throughout her career, Catharine has specialised in training teachers to integrate language and content and develop literacy across the curriculum for more advanced EAL learners. She also works as a consultant supporting school leadership in self-evaluation of whole school policy and provision for EAL learners, as well as coaching middle and senior leaders in the use of data to raise achievement for vulnerable groups.
Constant Leung
Constant has been a supporter of the work of NALDIC for some twenty years. He was the inaugural chair in 1993. He is currently a member of the Publications Committee.He has been involved in editorial work for some time.Currently he is the Editor of the Research Section of TESOL Quarterly, and Associate Editor of Language Assessment Quarterly, as well as serving on the editorial boards of a number of international journals including the Modern Language Journal.As Professor of Educational Linguistics at King’s College London, his professional and research interests include EAL curriculum development, language teacher education, and language education policy.He is an Academician of Social Sciences.He is strongly committed to the field of EAL.He believes that his school and university teaching experiences will enable him to participate effectively in the future developments of NALDIC as a professional organisation.
Victoria Murphy
Victoria is Professor of Applied Linguistics at the Department of Education, University of Oxford, carrying out research in the area of L2 learning of primary school children. She has a particular research interest in the area of language and literacy development of children with EAL and the nature of cross linguistic transfer/influence in emergent bilingual children. Victoria convenes a research group (R.E.A.L: www.education.ox.ac.uk/real/) which brings together DPhil and MSc students, as well as other colleagues, all of whom carry out research which it is hoped will ultimately lead to identifying ways to best support the language and literacy development in children with EAL. It is hoped that their research will contribute to a solid evidence base from which to consider the best ways to support practitioners who work with EAL pupils. Victoria has published widely in applied linguistics journals and books on the area of L2 learning in primary or pre-primary children, and a number of publications particularly focussed on the literacy skills of children with EAL. Victoria would like to support NALDIC’s work through enhancing the evidence base of what constitutes best practice in the areas of EAL teaching and learning and assessment.
