[eal-bilingual] Supporting EAL pupils

Hi Vivien
Have a look at some of the resources Gordon Ward 
http://homepage.ntlworld.com/gordon.ward2000/ has produced. I ordered the cd 
and have found it very useful.
Jill
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "vivien wand" <vivien.wand at ntlworld.com>
To: <eal-bilingual at lists.becta.org.uk>
Sent: Monday, January 21, 2008 10:21 AM
Subject: [eal-bilingual] Supporting EAL pupils

Hello All,

I work as a TA in a large, low diversity secondary school in East Anglia 
where we now have several isolated EAL learners (children of migrant workers 
mainly from Portugal, Lithuania and Russia).  I enjoy working with them very 
much and as a result am also doing a degree in English Langauge Teaching.

I am currently working on my dissertation "How can TAs give effective 
language support to non-English speaking pupils in mainsream secondary 
education?"  I'm finding lots of information on the principles which 
underpin effective practice of teaching and learning EAL but what I'm really 
looking for are practical suggestions for TAs in the classroom to help these 
pupils access the lesson, ie. modifying tasks etc.

Any input or comments would be very welcome.
Regards.
VJW

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