[senco-forum] teaching english language learners

A forumer wrote asking for suggestions for ideas on good teaching practice
for ELL.  Here are some ideas.  They may be of use to others... and others
may wish to add to the list...

Philippa

Teaching Talking from nfer-nelson is very effective at EAL support - see
book by Jean Gross and Angela White.
http://shop.nfer-nelson.co.uk/icat/teachingtalkingsecondedit
the book url is long - copy and paste for it to work in your browser address
line.
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Special-Educational-Needs-School-Improvement/dp/1843120119/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1203473083&sr=1-2

Cambridge university press have some good publications according to a fellow
practitioner out here in Dubai.

Clicker has some eal software
http://www.cricksoft.com/uk/products/clicker/newtoenglish

know that it takes 5 years to become native in a language through immersion
so don't expect miracles straight away. use lots of visuals.  pre-teach
vocab for mainstream topics. eal learners need to be taught in class not out
of it - all gleaned from an ell course we just attended.

Also googled for practical guidelines on teaching english language learners
and came up with:

http://www.centeroninstruction.org/resources.cfm?category=ell&grade_start+grade_n=12&subcategory=research
http://www.cambridge.org/elt/elt_projectpage.asp?id=2500782 - has several
books on that page.