[eal-bilingual] Supporting EAL pupils

Hi Vivien!

Many thanks for your help.  I'll give the EMAS teams a try.

Regards.
Viv Wand

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "stuart.scott" <stuart.scott at collaborativelearning.org>
To: <eal-bilingual at lists.becta.org.uk>
Sent: Monday, January 21, 2008 12:16 PM
Subject: Re: [eal-bilingual] Supporting EAL pupils

> Hi Vivien!
>
> The Suffolk and Norfolk EMAS teams have run the DCSF EMA distance
> pilot diploma for teaching assistants for the last two years, and they
> have developed some excellent practice (and good dissertations!) in EAL
> in the mainstream in several schools. I know because I have been
> involved in moderating these dissertations.  I suggest you contact them
> and join their network. If you have trouble finding contact names/nos
> email me directly.
>
> Stuart
>
> ----Original Message----
> From: vivien.wand at ntlworld.com
> Date: Jan 21, 2008 10:21
> To: <eal-bilingual at lists.becta.org.uk>
> Subj: [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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