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The EAL teaching book : promoting success for multilingual learners / Jean Conteh.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Transforming primary QTS seriesPublisher: London ; Thousand Oaks, California : Learning Matters, 2023Edition: 4th editionDescription: ix, 243 pages : illustrations ; 25 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9781529611953
Other title:
  • English as an Additional Language teaching book
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 23 370.117 C767e
LOC classification:
  • LC3715 .C67 2023
Contents:
Part 1. Understanding multilingual learners – theories of learning and language for EAL -- Introducing multilingual and EAL learners -- All about language and learning -- What does it mean to be multilingual? -- Part 2. Promoting learning – practical approaches for multilingual and EAL learners -- EAL in the Early Years: beginning schooling in a new language and culture -- EAL and SEND: The same but different? -- Funds of knowledge and identity, using home languages and cultures in learning -- Part 3. Organising and enhancing learning across the curriculum and beyond -- EAL and literacy: learning to read independently in a new language across the curriculum -- Planning for learning across the curriculum for multilingual and EAL learners -- Assessing multilingual and EAL learners across the curriculum -- Conclusions: synthesising learning and moving on.
Summary: "As the number of children for whom English is an Additional Language in schools increases, how do teachers and trainees prepare to support them to succeed? A complete guide to understanding, learning from and teaching bilingual and EAL children in schools. The text begins by asking 'who are EAL learners' and challenges some of the misconceptions about this group. It goes on to examine language in depth, providing focused theory to help teachers and trainees better understand the wider context of children's needs. This theory is supported by a wealth of information on practical teaching strategies and resources in the promoting learning section. The text covers planning across the curriculum for EAL and offers day-to-day practical support for teachers"-- Publisher's description.
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"The first edition of this book was published in 2012 ... Its title was Teaching bilingual and EAL learners in primary schools ... as part of the Learning Matters Transforming primary QTS series"--Introduction.

"Second edition published in 2015. Revised second edition published in September 2015. Third edition published in 2019"--t.p. verso.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Part 1. Understanding multilingual learners – theories of learning and language for EAL -- Introducing multilingual and EAL learners -- All about language and learning -- What does it mean to be multilingual? -- Part 2. Promoting learning – practical approaches for multilingual and EAL learners -- EAL in the Early Years: beginning schooling in a new language and culture -- EAL and SEND: The same but different? -- Funds of knowledge and identity, using home languages and cultures in learning -- Part 3. Organising and enhancing learning across the curriculum and beyond -- EAL and literacy: learning to read independently in a new language across the curriculum -- Planning for learning across the curriculum for multilingual and EAL learners -- Assessing multilingual and EAL learners across the curriculum -- Conclusions: synthesising learning and moving on.

"As the number of children for whom English is an Additional Language in schools increases, how do teachers and trainees prepare to support them to succeed? A complete guide to understanding, learning from and teaching bilingual and EAL children in schools. The text begins by asking 'who are EAL learners' and challenges some of the misconceptions about this group. It goes on to examine language in depth, providing focused theory to help teachers and trainees better understand the wider context of children's needs. This theory is supported by a wealth of information on practical teaching strategies and resources in the promoting learning section. The text covers planning across the curriculum for EAL and offers day-to-day practical support for teachers"-- Publisher's description.

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