Writing across the curriculum (Spotlight on best practice series)
Writing skills are the hardest element of language to develop to an academic level. The level of precision in both semantics (sentences)...
Developing (and using) Language Profiles
Providing appropriate support for language learner students starts with understanding where they have come from, where they might be...
But math is about numbers...? (Spotlight on Good Practice series)
One of the main challenges in instilling an "every teacher is a language teacher" ethos in schools is building understanding of languages...
From “good enough” to great: Best practice with higher level EAL learners
There is a consistent pattern in schools today of increasing numbers of students with an EAL designation and a concurrent decreasing in...
Translanguaging - should we all be doing it?
Translanguaging is becoming a hot topic in education, especially in international schools, where linguistically diverse classes are the...
EAL: Together or separate?
I get asked quite often "What is the best programme structure for EAL?", usually by administrators looking for a quick fix....
