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What are the effects on language use in multilingual families of the Covid-19 pandemic and associated school closures? Can you help us to find out? [ 268 more words ] http://ealjournal.org/…/multilingual-la nguage-use-during-t…/

In a break from Covid-19 related posts, we bring you an invitation to get involved in a new research project. Sue Garton and Fiona Copland of Aston and Stirling Universities, respectively, are looking for teachers of 7-11-year-old English learners to take part in an online survey about their teaching practices. Read on to learn more. [ 672 more words ] http://ealjournal.org/…/investigating-g lobal-practices-in-…/

As distance learning becomes the ‘new normal’, the absence of a collaborative classroom environment raises concerns that there will be fewer opportunities for learners to practise speaking English. This lockdown may be a difficult and unprecedented time, but there are ways we can flip the negative into a positive. [ 415 more words ] http://ealjournal.org/…/…/promoting-e al-pupil-voice-at-home/

Keeping up with the lessons and activities being set by teachers for your children is hard enough when instructions and guidance are in the language you are most proficient in. For parents who are English learners themselves, the challenge is multiplied. In this post Joanna Borysiak suggests some ways to keep academic learning going using L1s and some English learning activities that children can do largely independently. [ 615 more words ] http://ealjournal.org/…/04/08/lets-not- forget-the-eal-pare…/

Making emergency remote teaching manageable for students, teachers and parents is a challenge all educators are learning about (on the hoof). In this post Sophie Liggins, teacher and PhD candidate at the University of Essex describes a method of staying on top of it all by setting activities using Microsoft or Google Forms. [ 360 more words ] http://ealjournal.org/…/using-forms-for -emergency-remote-t…/

Helping English learners to talk about feeling poorly has never been so important. This activity from Natasha Ristic, a secondary school EAL and English coordinator looks at the language of feeling unwell. [ 180 more words ] http://ealjournal.org/…/bill-how-do-you -feel-coronavirus-s…/

Today's home learning activity comes from Gosia Bates (@lingosia), EAL Co-ordinator at Ely College. She is keeping her EAL learners busy by finding edcuationally oriented competitions to enter. [ 258 more words ] http://ealjournal.org/2020/03/31/friendly -competitions/

Who here has felt guilty about screen time over the last week or so? I'm not beating myself up about it, trying to hold down the day job and home educate two kids is hard! But this post has me feeling a little better. With Netflix (other streaming services are available) providing soundtracks in numerous languages for many of their shows, we have a great opportunity to provide some L1 input. [ 491 more words ] http://ealjournal.org/…/parents-save-yo urselves-with-trans…/

Today's activity for use at home with EAL learners during the school closures is from Pete Clements, EAL teacher in Thailand. He shares some cracking YouTube themed activities. [ 602 more words ] http://ealjournal.org/…/making-more-of- youtube-for-eal-lea…/

We continue with our series of short activities to engage EAL learners at home during the school closures. This activity comes from Stuart Scott and Shirley Berry of the Collaborative Learning project. [ 269 more words ] http://ealjournal.org/…/26/if-animals-c ounter-collecting-g…/

Here's another quick activity that parents can do at home. If you're lucky enough to have some outdoor space, this activity combines a bit of phonics, and bit of reading and writing, and a bit of PE to keep the mental and physical muscles moving for our youngest learners. [ 128 more words ] http://ealjournal.org/…/03/25/backyard- letter-and-word-hunt/

Home writing tasks during school closures http://ealjournal.org/…/home-writing-ta sks-during-school-c…/

During school closures we are publishing descriptions of short activities that EAL learners can do independently at home or with their parents, or that can be set by teachers for online learning. Today's activity comes from Charlotte Harding of The Khalsa Academy Wolverhampton. She is using tongue twisters as a way to keep the fun going at home with English pronunciation and fluency. [ 290 more words ] http://ealjournal.org/2020/03/23/tongue-t wisters/

Beth Skelton, EAL consultant, presenter and coach offers advice and activities for families who don't have ready access to high tech resources at home. Her activity ideas are classified by age phase and she has provided a list of 'great resources' to accompany these. This is the second in our special series of posts designed to help parents, teachers and EAL learners with home learning activities during school closures. [ 682 more words ] http://ealjournal.org/…/at-home-low-tec h-learning-activiti…/

During school closures we are publishing descriptions of short activities that EAL learners can do independently at home or with their parents, or that can be set by teachers for online learning. Today's activity comes from Samira Moradi of Southgate School. She has prepared a listening activity that will intermediate learners of English. If you have an activity that you would like to share, we'd love to hear from you. [ 591 more words ] http://ealjournal.org/…/…/listening-s kills-activity-covid19/

Below is a crowd-sourced compendium of resources that can be used with EAL learners at home with their parents or independently during the school shutdown. I have tried to arrange these thematically, but have not been able to verify every site in detail so there may be some inconsistency. It's not a pretty list, but I hope it will provide some avenues worth pursuing. [ 403 more words ] http://ealjournal.org/…/resources-for-e al-learners-during-…/

Devyani Sharma is Professor of Sociolinguistics at Queen Mary University of London. In this post she shares a fabulous resource developed by sociolinguistics at Queen Mary's London to bring the reality of linguistic diversity and variation to life in the secondary school classroom. [ 1,004 more word ] http://ealjournal.org/…/teach-real-engl ish-teaching-englis…/

We live in a multilingual society. Cate Hamilton, founder of Babel Babies, an organisation that brings mutlilingualism to all children no matter their linguistic backgrounds, tell her story of the joy that linguistic pluralism can bring. [ 1,076 more word ] http://ealjournal.org/2020/01/13/the-gift -of-languages/