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Language and Identity in Multicultural Settings: (Online)
Occasional Paper 26
Alison Hatt and Tözün Issa
ISBN 978-1-902189-05-5
26 pages
2011
This paper reports a study on how young children’s linguistic and cultural experiences are acknowledged and embedded in practice throughout the Early Years Foundation Stage. It explores how children from a variety of linguistic and cultural backgrounds are supported through a range of pedagogical practices in an Early Years Centre and in two linked Reception classes.
English as an Additional Language: Approaches to teaching linguistic minority students
Edited by Constant Leung and Angela Creese
ISBN 978-1-84787-532-7
129 pages
2010
This book provides an invaluable and accessible resource for working with EAL learners. It brings together the international experiences and expertise of a team of distinguished language educators who explore a range of teaching approaches and provide professionally-grounded practical advice.
This book will be of use to individual teachers who want to extend their knowledge and practice, and also as a set text for professional development programmes.
'This book represents the outcome of long-term national and international collaboration. The different contributions embody many important principles. As such this book speaks powerfully to all who aspire to create learning opportunities for students in multilingual classrooms.'
Viv Edwards, Director, National Centre for Language and Literacy, University of Reading
Available to members at the great discounted price of £12.80+p&p (RRP £18.99)
NALDIC Quarterly Volume 8 Number 4
Edited by Catharine Driver and Peta Ullmann
ISSN 1751-2182
40 pages
Summer 2011
This highly practical edition of NALDIC Quarterly focuses on pupils who are learning EAL and who have either special educational needs or additional support needs.
Contents
Editorial Catharine Driver and Peta Ullmann
View from the Chair Amy Thompson
Diverging Approaches to Special Educational Needs in England and Scotland and their Implications for Children
Learning English as an Additional Language Tony Cline
Looking to Speech and Language Therapy for Assessing Bilingual Children - Emma Parsons
Researching Inclusion- Christina Richardson and Tracey Costley
Selective Mutism and the Bilingual Learner - Peta Ullmann
Assessing Phonological Processing in Multilingual Learners - Anne Margaret Smith
Gypsy, Roma and Traveller Education in a Climate of Cuts - Brian Foster
NALDIC News
Book Reviews
10 Reasons to be Cheerful - Frank Monaghan
