EAL Teacher and Teaching Assistants (Online)

NALDIC Quarterly Volume 9 Number 3
Edited by Carrie Cable

ISSN 1751-2190

44 pages
Spring 2012

This edition of NALDIC Quarterly focuses on the current roles of teachers and teaching assistants in supporting the learning and language development of bilingual learners in our schools. Over the last 50 years in the UK we have seen considerable developments in policy and provision for EAL learners with corresponding developments in training and practice. However, at a time when the number of EAL learners in schools is at an all time high, with over a million children and young people identified as speaking a language other than English in schools in England (DfE 2012) the interview data included in this edition of NALDIC Quarterly suggests the number of professionals employed to support these learners is in decline.

Contents

Editorial - Carrie Cable
View from the Chair - Amy Thompson
EAL specialists and support staff in schools - Nicola Davies
The role of an Ethnic Minority Achievement Co-ordinator - Raymonde Sneddon
A bilingual nursery nurse - Interview by Carrie Cable and Leena Helavaara Robertson
Combining the roles of EAL and mainstream teacher - Interview by Frank Monaghan
The roles of EAL teaching Assistants - Interviews by Catharine Driver and Manny Vazquez
NALDIC Online survey - Carrie Cable
Participant perspectives on the impact of EAL CPD - Anwar Khan
Working in Partnership
Dyslexia and literacy difficulties in multilingual contexts - Deirdre Martin
NALDIC News
Book reviews - Louise Wheeler and Nicola Davies