[eal-bilingual] eal-bilingual Digest, Vol 56, Issue 19

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Elspeth Stewart from Moray in Scotland went to USA to research EAL provision. A report of her findings is in The Scottish Educational Journal Part one in January 2008 and part 2 February 2008. Google the Scottish Educational Journal and you can download these journals.
  Susan McLaren

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Today's Topics:

1. International study (Lynette Bellwood)

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Message: 1
Date: Thu, 22 May 2008 19:03:11 +0930
From: "Lynette Bellwood" 
Subject: [eal-bilingual] International study
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Dave,

You could look at what is happening in Australia and in particular,
South Australia. There are high numbers of refugee, migrant and
international students in many schools here. The last few years has seen
very explicit identification, modelling, scaffolding, languge structure
and feature teaching of the various written genres in mainstream
subjects. We also have a set of writing scales for assessment and
planning. All this is done using a Functional Grammar approach.

For more information on what is happening at a specific school (St
Aloysius College) you can contact me:lbellwood at sac.sa.edu.au 

and/or the following website for a good overview of what happens in
South Australia

www.decs.sa.gov.au. 

Use the search English Second Language, which will bring up around 250
results. These include power point presentations, refugee learners
information, functional grammar, scope and scales, moderated evidence
and early learners ESL.

Good luck with your study. It is also interesting to know what is going
on in the UK.

Lynette

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Today's Topics:

1. 'Beyond the school gates' (Bill Bolloten)
2. EAL International Study (Dave Lochtie)
3. Re: EAL International Study (stuart.scott)
4. Re: EAL International Study (Punambhasi at aol.com)
5. Looking for a contact (stuart.scott)
6. Another little request (stuart.scott)
7. Arabic dictionaries (Viv Edwards)

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Message: 1
Date: Tue, 20 May 2008 14:44:16 +0100
From: Bill Bolloten 
Subject: [eal-bilingual] 'Beyond the school gates'
To: Refugee Education , For practitioners
involved in teaching pupils from ethnic and
linguistic minorities

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'Beyond the school gates': Refugee Council's research report on 
supporting refugees and asylum seekers in secondary school [May 2008]

This report presents the findings from research undertaken as part of 
the Inclusive Secondary Schools Project which is a three-year 
project, which funded by the KPMG Foundation. The project has 
researched and piloted new ways of working that link schools with 
refugee and asylum seeking young people, their parents/carers and 
Refugee Community Organisations (RCOs).

This report discusses the findings of the research phase which 
explored the needs and experiences of refugees and asylum seekers in 
relation to secondary schooling. The research consisted of 70 in- 
depth interviews, and questionnaire surveys with RCOs, secondary 
schools and local authorities, to:

* examine the experiences and needs of these groups
* identify key barriers to inclusion, and
* identify examples of practice aimed at overcoming these barriers.

A copy of the report can be downloaded from:

http://www.refugeecouncil.org.uk/policy/position/2008/ 
inclusiveschools.htm

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Message: 2
Date: Tue, 20 May 2008 15:58:53 +0000 (GMT)
From: Dave Lochtie 
Subject: [eal-bilingual] EAL International Study
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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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Message: 3
Date: Tue, 20 May 2008 18:53:32 +0100 (BST)
From: "stuart.scott" 
Subject: Re: [eal-bilingual] EAL International Study
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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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Date: May 20, 2008 16:58 
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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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Message: 4
Date: Tue, 20 May 2008 17:12:08 EDT
From: Punambhasi at aol.com
Subject: Re: [eal-bilingual] EAL International Study
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Dave 

Look up SIOP - Sheltered instruction observation protocol on US
websites. 
One of these is:

_http://ies.ed.gov/ncee/edlabs/projects/project.asp?id=68_ 
(http://ies.ed.gov/ncee/edlabs/projects/project.asp?id=68) 
and
_http://www.cal.org/siop/_ (http://www.cal.org/siop/) 

The SIOP Model is a research-based approach that is taken to be 
effective in 
addressing the academic needs of English language learners in the
United 
States. 

Punam Behl

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Message: 5
Date: Wed, 21 May 2008 07:03:29 +0100 (BST)
From: "stuart.scott" 
Subject: [eal-bilingual] Looking for a contact
To: eal-bilingual at lists.becta.org.uk
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Does anybody know who is now responsible for Ethnic Minority
Achievement In Dublin? .

Best wishes,
Stuart

Collaborative Learning Project, 17 Barford Street, London N1 0QB
A network of teaching professionals developing and disseminating
accessible talk-for-learning teaching materials in all subject areas and
for all ages.
Telephone: 0044 (0)207 226 8885
Website:http://www.collaborativelearning.org
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Message: 6
Date: Wed, 21 May 2008 07:14:14 +0100 (BST)
From: "stuart.scott" 
Subject: [eal-bilingual] Another little request
To: eal-bilingual at lists.becta.org.uk
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You may remember that a while ago I asked if you could help a student 
who was doing research on perceptions teachers working in EAL. She is 
now interested in interviewing colleagues who teach EAL but have 
another language as their first language. If you are prepared to be 
interviewed (over the phone) could you contact me and I will ask her to 
contact you directly.

Stuart

Collaborative Learning Project, 17 Barford Street, London N1 0QB
A network of teaching professionals developing and disseminating
accessible talk-for-learning teaching materials in all subject areas and
for all ages.
Telephone: 0044 (0)207 226 8885
Website:http://www.collaborativelearning.org
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Message: 7
Date: Wed, 21 May 2008 09:00:02 +0100
From: Viv Edwards 
Subject: [eal-bilingual] Arabic dictionaries
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Hi

I am positing this on behalf of Sheila O?Grady.

Viv Edwards

I'm currently working with a 16 year old Palestinian lad who came to the
UK
at the end of last year. His spoken English is deemed good enough for
him to
be in mainstream classes but there are lots of words he doesn't
understand
and he struggles with writing - made even more difficult because he
wants to
produce quality work.

Our exams officer has agreed he can have extra time and the use of a
dictionary for upcoming modular maths and science tests. Unfortunately
his
dictionary - Concise Oxford English/Arabic Dictionary - doesn't contain
many
of the words he needs to reference.

I've done a bit of research on the internet and the Oxford
English/Arabic
Dictionary of Current Usage gets favourable reviews but it costs ?55 so
I
want to be sure it's going to do the business and won't be too enormous
to
carry around! 

Any help would be greatly appreciated. School will buy the dictionary
provided I can place the order by Friday so this request is a tad urgent

Thanks
Sheila

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