Workshop Presentation

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Workshop Presentation

• English as an Additional Language
• Raymonde Sneddon
• National Association for Language Development In
  the Curriculum

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Objectives for the Session

• By the end of this workshop you will have
• Considered the possible knowledge and experience
  gaps of Tutors, Mentors and Student Teachers in
  relation to English as an Additional Language
• An awareness of the potential contribution of the
  TTRB
• Explored strategies for using resources for
  teaching English as an additional language in
  your ITE setting

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EAL in ITE

• All trainees will encounter pupils learning
  English as an additional language in their career
• Trainees (and tutors) may have little experience
  in schools or witness poor practice depending on
  regional demographics
• Guest lecturers teaching a one-off session on
  EAL has very little impact

• Programmes need to address
• the distinctiveness of the learners
• task, research and practice and
• strategies that permeate all areas
• of the curriculum.

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Adding to the tutors knowledge

• Ruth Lee Using a VLE for EAL in a secondary
  History PGCE (Leicester)
• John Landon the potential of problem-based
  learning (BED, Moray House)
• NALDIC Teaching and Learning SEN, gifted and
  talented
• NALDIC Teaching and Learning Combating Racism

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Adding to a tutors knowledge

• Filling gaps in tutor knowledge base
• Making use of other teachers experience
• harnessing the cultural knowledge and personal
  experience of student and trainee teachers and
  pupils

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Informing theory and policy
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Informing the student teacher experience

• Meeting the standards in low diversity areas
• Using real case studies for building awareness
  and for planning lessons for bilingual learners
• Embedding EAL issues into planning and teaching

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EAL across the curriculum ideas and materials

• NALDIC resources EAL ICT
• Writing in English as an additional language at
  KS4 and Post-16 (Ofsted 2003)
• Access and Engagement in Mathematics DfES 2002