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About eal-bilingual

The eal-bilingual discussion group is for teachers of English as an additional language, specialist classroom assistants, and others involved in teaching and supporting pupils from ethnic and linguistic minority backgrounds. It is also for institutions of higher and further education, LEAs and other agencies providing initial and further professional development in the field of EAL and bilingualism.

The list aims to provide a forum for discussion, and to promote the development of ideas and practice. It has been set up by NALDIC, LDMS and Becta. It is an open list - anyone can join.

eal-bilingual is an open discussion group. This means that anyone with an interest in this area is welcome to participate in the discussions. All discussions will be publicly available and when you post a message, your email address will be visible to registered users.

All messages sent to eal-bilingual are stored in a publicly available archive. Archives are provided as an additional resource to users and enables non members to browse the messages. The archive also means that you do not have to save every message you receive from this discussion group.

To see the collection of prior postings to the list, visit the eal-bilingual Archives.
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