[eal-bilingual] EAL International Study

The obvious country is the US with a Spanish population destined to be 
the majority language in about 15 years! Many colleagues have visited. 
There is a wide range of provision and a strong political element.

Best wishes, Stuart

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From: davelochtie at yahoo.co.uk
Date: May 20, 2008 16:58 
To: <eal-bilingual at lists.becta.org.uk>
Subj: [eal-bilingual] EAL International Study

I am in the process of planning a potential international study visit 
for qualified primary level teachers looking at a wide variety of 
issuing concerning teaching English as an additional language within 
mainstream education. 

The idea is to visit either a largely English speaking country with a 
high number of non-native speakers or a country with a different first 
language with English on the mainstream curriculum and compare 
teaching/learning methods, resources and provisions with what we have 
in the U.K. If anyone on this list has any ideas as to specific 
learning objectives we could aim for, could point me in the direction 
of research already done in this area or would be interested in hearing 
about our findings please let me know. Thanks, Dave Lochtie

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