Secondary Warehouse
Q19 English as an Additional Language
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| Professional Standards for Qualified Teacher Status - Help Guide Within this document you will find useful ideas to help you with the QTS standards. |  |
| A language in common: Assessing English as an additional language Qualifications and Curriculum Authority report - 2000. The assessment of English as an additional language, including principles underlying assessment and assessment scales. | |
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| Managing EAL - Secondary: Plotting Progress Valentines High School in Redbridge has over 69 per cent of its students with EAL. It is a richly diverse school, 78 per cent of students are from ethnic minorities and there are over 50 languages spoken by the pupils. In this programme we see how mainstream English teachers work in partnership with EAL specialists to include early stage English learners in lessons. |  |
| Managing EAL - Secondary: Strategies Around the Clock Valentines High School is a successful urban comprehensive where 69 per cent of pupils have English as an additional language. This programme looks at the cases of Ibrahim and Theebika, who are both EAL pupils at the Redbridge school. Ibrahim struggles to read and write in his first language, Turkish, while Theebika has already got an A grade in GCSE German, her third language. | |
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| Acquiring a Second Language for School During the past two decades, rapidly increasing language minority demographics have had a major impact on U.S. schools. Given the misinformation that persists about second language acquisition among both educators and the public, this short publication is written to guide the reader through the substantial research knowledge base that our field has developed over the past 25 years. |  | |
| NALDIC - ITTSEAL This website has been developed by NALDIC, the UK professional association for EAL with help from the TDA to provide support and guidance on English as an Additional Language for all professionals involved in initial teacher education. | | |
| Hounslow Language Service The aim of the service is to provide schools with support for several key areas of work: raising the attainment of EAL minority ethnic pupils; maintaining a database of EAL pupil progress, highlighting those pupils at risk of under-achievement; meeting the requirement for schools to set targets linked to performance for pupils from minority ethnic groups; ensuring inclusion and access for EAL minority ethnic pupils; meeting the schools’ duties under the Race Relations (Amendment) Act 2000; and responding to the recommendations of the Lawrence Inquiry. | | |
| Ethnic Minority Attainment This online resource base for teachers has been developed by Birmingham, Leeds and Manchester LEAs with funding from the DfES. | | |
| Beginners in English as an Additional Language Approximately one in ten pupils in England are learning English as an additional language. Although there are no national statistics available, many of these pupils join schools and classes with limited or very little knowledge of English. Whatever their diverse backgrounds, they share a common and 'distinctive task' which is to 'catch up' with a moving target by learning an additional language whilst simultaneously learning National Curriculum content, skills and concepts. | | |
| Teaching in England - EAL The term EAL is used when referring to pupils whose main language at home (mother tongue) is a language other than English. The child could well know some English and will probably have been born in the UK. Effective support for pupils learning EAL should be part of a co-coordinated 'whole-school' approach to meeting the needs of individual pupils. | | |