[eal-bilingual] EAL and assessment

From: "Nicola Davies" <ndavies00 at hotmail.com>

Many thanks Nicola - I'm sure I also read a critique of LIC a few years ago. 
Maybe it was a Naldic paper. Can you direct me towards this by any chance? 
And would you venture a recommendation for an authority in England that I 
might contact to discuss their practice? Tricky one I know but would 
appreciate it if at all poss.

Many thanks again
Luan

>From: "Nicola Davies" <ndavies00 at hotmail.com>
>Reply-To: For practitioners involved in teaching pupils from ethnic 
>andlinguistic minorities <eal-bilingual at lists.becta.org.uk>
>To: "'For practitioners involved in teaching pupils from ethnic 
>andlinguisticminorities'" <eal-bilingual at lists.becta.org.uk>
>Subject: RE: [eal-bilingual] EAL and assessment
>Date: Mon, 10 Sep 2007 22:03:13 +0100
>
>Luan
>You may want to look at the initial teacher education part of the NALDIC
>website.  The section on assessment
>http://www.naldic.org.uk/ITTSEAL2/teaching/Assessment.cfm has a brief
>overview of some of the issues, plus links to some of the other English
>speaking country models of assessment which can be a bit hard to track down
>if you don't already know where they are.  In the Online Assessment
>Resources section you can find links to Queensland's Bandscales, TESOL ESL
>standards and Victoria's steps and the Ontario stages.
>Nicola
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: eal-bilingual-bounces at lists.becta.org.uk
>[mailto:eal-bilingual-bounces at lists.becta.org.uk] On Behalf Of Luan Porter
>Sent: 10 September 2007 18:26
>To: eal-bilingual at lists.becta.org.uk; graham.smith737 at ntlworld.com
>Subject: RE: [eal-bilingual] EAL and assessment
>
>HI
>I'm new to this mailing list.
>I've been following this discussion with some interest.
>The 'Stages of English' (ie 1-5) were introduced in Scotland just 2 years
>ago. Since this time we (ie the EAL practitioners) and mainstream 
>colleagues
>
>have been required to use them to make an annual return on all bilingual
>pupils (that's the theory at least). Obviously there are some 'challenges'
>with these stages and I'm about to have another look at LIC but would also
>like a recommendation of where to find out more about the Australian
>assessment systems you speak of, and also to ask in which LEA would I find
>best practice in this area?
>
>Many thanks
>Luan
>
>(Headteacher of City of Edinburgh EAL Service)
>
>
>
>

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