Supporting EAL Learners | English as an Additional Language

Find out how to support children who have English as an Additional Language (EAL).

DfE 'Effective Practice in Schools' for EAL:

Bell Foundation EAL information:

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[leeshabeaumont]

Absolutely love this. I'm in year 6 and I have a new kiddie from China so I'm trying my best to help him understand.

[Another_Look]

Immersion and exposure in context really is the key. That is how children learn two or three languages here in most of Africa. Good stuff.

[petercdowney]

In the course of my work as a Learning Support Assistant at a further education college, I did some work with a student who was from Venezuela once. His native language was obviously Spanish. His English was better than he would admit, but he would often use Google Translate in class. I told him that Google Translate is very unreliable (the Japanese YouTuber Sora The Troll has actually referenced this in his videos) and introduced him to a website called WordReference, which is not suitable for machine-translating whole sentences, but might help him if he gets stuck on a word. He got the shock of his life when he learned that I did Spanish up to A level!

The student, despite being quite proficient in English, would often have outbursts in Spanish. Sometimes he would even swear in Spanish and I would have to calmly remind him that I could understand what he was saying!

[SunitaYadav-gbek]

I very well agree to your statements. Story telling, pictures are very interesting for kids. They love stories with puppets.

[lizzyg.]

hi my child watch this and she know it elready❤️🧡💛💚💙💜🌸

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