[senco-forum] EAL and extra time

As I understand it, the only support you can give an EAL student at GCSE is
a mother tongue/english dictionary.

As to whether they are SEN/EAL - what are there current English NC levels?
Have they made better than expected progress, or less?
You need to establish how close to CALP they are (Cognitive Academic
Language Proficiency).
Also for SEN how well do they use their mother tongue?

Richard

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Subject: [senco-forum] EAL and extra time

Does anybody have any experience of assessing EAL pupils for extra time at
GCSE please? I have 3 boys in year 11, pne who has been here since 2004,
another  since 2002 and another for about 9 years. they have all performed
belwo
average  on the Edinburgh and Vernon Warden and clearly have difficulty with
reading  words at text level - but how do I know whether or not it is an EAL
issue
or  whether it is an undelying difficulty?
Any tips greatly appreciated.
chris

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