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L contemporary issue: How to succeed with EAL students in the classroom Group A - EAL contemporary issue

EAL contemporary issue: How to succeed with EAL students in the classroom Group A - EAL contemporary issue

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EAL contemporary issue:How to succeed with EAL students in the classroom

Group A - EAL contemporary issue

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Group A - EAL contemporary issue

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What percentage of the Jelly babies are EAL?

• = 5% of children in your borough

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My name is Salam Mohannayeh, I am 10 years old and I have been learning English for a year now. My first language is Arabic, the language is similar to English as they both have punctuation. It would really help me if my teachers would use actions to help explain things. I find reading and writing quite difficult, however I enjoy speaking and listening.

My name is Daniella Almeida and I have been learning English for 7 months. My first language is Portuguese; the language is similar to English as they have the same spelling and punctuation. It would really help me if my teachers would use subtitles and pictures. I find reading and writing quite difficult, however I enjoy speaking and listening

My name is Bader Radi and I have been learning English for a year now. My first language is Arabic, but I can also speak Swedish. The language is similar to English as the letters are the same.It would really help me if my teachers would give me extra homework to help me learn English. I find listening and writing difficult and find reading and speaking quite easy.

My name is Daniella Almeida and I have been learning English for 7 months. My first language is Portuguese; the language is similar to English as they have the same spelling and punctuation. It would really help me if my teachers would use subtitles and pictures. I find reading and writing quite difficult, however I enjoy speaking and listening.

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Tried and tested strategies in the classroom

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KeywordsHow and why?

Set explicit listening tasks around key words – either for the whole class or individual students.

For example –

make a tally chart of the number of times the teacher uses certain words

A bingo chart of key words to cross off during a talk or clip

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DARTSHow and why?

DARTs are directed activities related to texts. Examples include –

– sequencing;

– prioritising;

– matching pictures to text;

– matching phrases to definitions;

– matching examples of cause and effect;

– filling in gaps in text;

– the use of true/false statements;

– matching concepts to examples;

– sorting to determine which information is not

needed for a piece of work;

– grouping information together to identify

similarities and differences between

key words and phrases.

Taken from Access and Engagement in RE,

DfES, 2002,

http://www.naldic.org.uk/docs/resources/documen

ts/sec_re_eal_access_engagRE.pdf

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Cloze ProcedureAlso known as fill in the blanks

A cloze procedure is a "fill-in-the-blanks" activity where the learner uses clues from the context to supply words that have been deliberately removed from the text.

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Why use it?

Using cloze-procedure helps pupils with their reading and writing. Using this activity will help support learners in looking at either semantic patterns or sentence structure. Writing is the hardest skill for bilingual pupils to master so it is important to scaffold writing tasks by using writing frames, matching words to pictures and using cloze procedures.

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Each child has a nominated talk partner. Partners change every half term. Strategies such as ‘think, pair and share’ encourage EAL pupils to have a chance to interact and voice an opinion. The use of first language for learning is acknowledged and children are able to choose which language they want to discuss concepts in before sharing their thoughts with the class in English, to aid their understanding.

Think, Pair, Share How and why?

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EAL Strategies in Practice

Pair and Share

Visualisation Dictogloss

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Role modelsHow and why?

Use group work to help EAL students hear positive English language models.

This may also be helpful to the student in internalising the ‘hidden’ rules of language inside and outside the classroom.

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Miss W

English Group: Yr 10, set 2

Grade DTarget D+

EAL

Grade C-Target C

Grade C-Target C

Grade C+Target B-

G&TEAL

Grade C-Target C+

EAL

Grade DTarget D+

Grade CTarget C+

Grade DTarget D+

EAL

Grade C+Target B-

Grade DTarget D+

EAL

Grade CTarget C+

EAL Grade CTarget C+

EAL

Grade D Target D+

EAL

Grade D Target D+

EAL

Grade D+Target C-

EAL SA

Grade CTarget C+

Grade DTarget D+

EAL

Grade B-Target B

StatementedEAL

Grade C-Target C+

G&T EAL

Grade CTarget C+

EAL

Grade CTarget C+_

EAL

Grade D+Target C-

EAL

Grade C-Target C

SAP

Grade CTarget C+

EAL

TA - Mr S

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RehearsalsHow and why? Prime EAL students that you will come to

them for answers.

Ask them in the interim to orally rehearse these with a (helpful) peer.

This technique may be usefully applied to all students.

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Writing frameHow and why?

Provide students with a list of words and phrases appropriate for use in the writing task set.

e.g.

Write a news report on the water cycle

Good evening viewersPrecipitationIn the mountains...CloudsThe sun shining on the sea...

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Writing frame

The topic of the question is an exclusion - so it would be good to use other ‘school’ terminology in your response. Here are some useful words your could use in your response:appealrequestdecisionpolicyactionconsiderationexclusioncontractanger managementremorse (to show you are sorry)

Sentences starter:

Dear Ms. H

Thank you for taking the time to read this letter. I understand you are a very busy woman and would like to stress what a fantastic job you are doing running X School.

Para 1

Para 2

Para 3

Para 4

Para 5 - Round up your points

Yours sincerely

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‘snapshot’ practical lesson

•Accessible

Images

Accessible language – use language culturally accessible

Sentence starters

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How will you implement these

strategies in your teaching?

What new strategies have you learnt

today?

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Sources:

www.naldic.org.uk

http://nationalstrategies.standards.dcsf.gov.uk/primary/publications/inclusion/bi_children/

Access and Engagement series (DfES 2002) http://www.naldic.org.uk/docs/resources/KeyDocs.cfm

Jim Cummins, Language, Power and Pedagogy (Multilingual Matters, Clevedon, 2000)

Neil Mercer, Words and minds: how we use language to think together (Routledge, Abingdon, 2000)

Woodside High School

Happy EAL learners