Support Strategies for English Language Learners in the Classroom

The EAL Toolkit:
English as an Additional Language
Sources:
Access and Engagement series (DfES 2002) 
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)
My head
Other people’s heads
http://www.naldic.org.uk/docs/resources/KeyDocs.cfmhttp://nationalstrategies.standards.dcsf.gov.uk/primary/publications/inclusion/bi_children/www.naldic.org.uk
Made by Mike Gershon –
mikegershon@hotmail.com
Buddy Up
If a pupil is learning English as an
additional language, you could ‘buddy’
them with a strong speaker and listener.
This could be part of an induction
programme, for specific activities such as
group work or extended writing, or as an
on-going strategy.
The buddy-ing could be made explicit to
students or left ambiguous, a decision
probably best left to the teacher’s
discretion.
 
Picture Rules
An EAL students’ entry into the
classroom could be eased by
providing them with the class rules
set out in picture form.
Equally, if you have rules displayed
in your classroom then supplement
them with diagrams/pictures.
If proving successful in individual
classrooms, the strategy could be
extended to whole school rules.
Back to start
Dictionary
Provide foreign-language
dictionaries in your classroom (if
your department can afford them!)
and encourage students to use
them.
A simple starter could be for the
whole class to look-up and translate
key words.
Native speakers could then teach
correct pronunciations to each
other (English 
and
 other languages).
 
Back to start
Images
Supplement writing on
PowerPoint, IWBs,
worksheets etc. with
images.
Google images provides a
quick and easy means to
find suitable pictures.
 
Back to start
Sentence Starters
Provide sentence starters (also a
good way to get everybody down to
writing).
e.g.
One side of the argument is...
Another side of the argument is...
Therefore my conclusion is...
In addition, sentence starters can
be used to model academic
language.
 
Back to start
Talk to support staff
Find out what works with
particular students.
Discuss  future planning and
how the support staff can
work most effectively in your
lessons.
Ask them to identify students’
strengths and weaknesses in
learning EAL.
 
Back to start
Role Models
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.
 
Back to start
Pre-teach Vocabulary
If there is additional support in
school, it can be useful to pre-teach
key vocabulary.
This is particularly true if students
are working or reading from
textbooks, either individually or as a
class.
Additional support may also be able
to provide extra visual aids, or assist
in reading text in advance with
students.
 
Back to start
Open Questions
Open questions have many
benefits.
One may be the opportunity for EAL
students to verbalise their
reasoning.
This gives the teacher a chance to
analyse how they are using
language in the subject – i.e. Are
there certain (subject) conventions
which they are circumventing?
(of course, this may turn out to be a
good thing!)
 
Back to start
Rehearsal
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.
 
Back to start
Concrete Starters
Use concrete rather than
abstract starters. This may
allow EAL students greater
access to the beginning of the
lesson.
e.g. Matching words,
matching words to pictures or
grouping similar words.
 
Back to start
Whiteboards
Mini-whiteboards
offer a good link
between talk and
writing.
Students are able to
‘sketch’ and play with
their written answers
thanks to the
impermanence.
Errors can be wiped
away!
 
Back to start
Questioning
Differentiating questioning
helps to engage students
throughout the classroom.
In planning you could develop
questions with your EAL
students in mind.
Or, develop a set of question
stems you can adapt for
students learning EAL.
 
Back to start
Support the Teacher
If appropriate, ask
classroom support
to run the starter
activity whilst you
work with a pupils
learning EAL.
Or, ask a student (or
2-3) to plan and
deliver a starter
each week whilst
you work with the
pupils.
 
Back to start
Thinking Time
Build thinking time into the
lesson – “30 seconds silent
thinking from now.”
This allows all students to
reflect on questions and
content.
Students learning EAL may
further benefit from the
extended time for processing.
 
Back to start
Model Speaking
and Listening
Model speaking and listening
exchanges.
This could be done with another
adult or with a student.
A particularly powerful way might
be if the class sit in a circle and you
model with a partner in the middle
(like a Goldfish Bowl).
Showcase the importance of active
listening.
 
Back to start
Speaking and Listening
Success Criteria
Make the
success criteria
for successful
speaking and
listening explicit.
Supplement this
with posters on
the classroom
walls reiterating
in writing and
pictures.
 
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Listening Frame
Provide a listening frame
students whereby it is
clear what areas you
would like them to make
notes on.
This could be extended
by précising the
subsequent talk/clip and
asking students to
prepare a suitable
listening frame.
 
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Listening for
Key Words
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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Run-off an extra
copy of texts or
handouts with
key-words or
passages already
highlighted
 
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First Language
Pupils can be encouraged to
use their first language where
appropriate, particularly if
there is a support teacher or
students with whom they can
talk and then translate.
 
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Make talk
purposeful
Ensure that the talk built into
lessons is purposeful.
This could be through a tight
structure with roles, targets
such as solving a particular
problem or using it as a
rehearsal for written
arguments.
 
Back to start
Allocate Roles
Allocate specific roles in
group work.
This ensures students know
exactly what is expected of
them and provides them with
a concept to ‘perform’ to (i.e.
Question setter, challenger,
note-taker)
 
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Plan in first language
Encourage students
to talk or write in
their first language
when attempting to
answer a question or
planning their
response.
 
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Matching or
Grid Activities
Provide matching or grid type
activities for students.
Give some model answers to
show what is expected.
Set the difficulty so that some
investigation and collaborative
work is required.
 
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Writing Frame
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 viewers
Precipitation
In the mountains...
Clouds
The sun shining on the sea...
 
Back to start
Plenary Prime
At the lesson
start tell pupils
you will come
to them in the
plenary. This
gives time to
plan a
response.
 
Back to start
Presentation Tips
Explicitly model and
explain how to
present to the rest
of the class.
Include basics such
as standing up,
facing the audience,
speaking at the right
speed and volume.
 
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Genre Modelling
Provide students with a detailed model
or scaffold of the particular ‘school
genre’ you are working on.
This could be the essay, story writing,
report, experimental procedure etc.
Two ideas are;
i) Use student work from previous years
as a model. Highlight the genre
structure within.
ii) Provide a detailed ‘structure-
framework’ for the students that breaks
down the genre into constituent
elements. This could be supplemented
with sentence starters/content cues for
each section.
 
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Vocabulary and
Meaning
 
This strategy is in two parts.
Part 1 – Give students a list of
key words in English and ask
them to translate into their
first language using a
dictionary.
Part 2 – Give students a table
of meanings of (some of) the
initial English words. Ask
students to complete the table
by correctly matching the
words to the meanings.
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Belonging
 
 
Abraham Maslow’s hierarchy of human
needs points to safety and belonging as
prerequisites for learning and development.
EAL learners may be further from these
because of the communication gap.
Strategies to give EAL learners a sense of
safety and belonging in the classroom may
include (amongst many):
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Bilingual dictionaries
-
Letting the student know in advance if you
are going to ask them a ‘public’ question.
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Reacting positively to mistakes (including
your own) and using them to further learning.
http://powerwillmotivation.com/images/abraham_maslow_quote_hierarchy_of_needs.jpg
 
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Different Types
 of Language
Jim Cummins identified three different types of
language relevant to learners.
Communicative Language
 – or, conversational
fluency. Develops first, in face-to-face settings.
Cognitive Language – 
develops through
investigating, exploring ideas and solving
problems.
Academic Language – 
passive voice, ideas and
concepts as agents, vocabulary with Greek or Latin
roots, metaphor, personification and
nominalization.
The latter two are required for educational
success. The model could provide a framework for
tasks or structuring of work.
 
http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=fM4KdFOicGcC&dq=cummins+
language+power+and+pedagogy&printsec=frontcover&source=bn&
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http://nationalstrategies.stand
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cations/inclusion/bi_children/
DFES document from
which this is adapted:
Cummins’ book on
Google Books:
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Types of Talk
 
 
Neil Mercer identified three types of talk in his
2000 book, 
‘Words and Minds’;
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Exploratory Talk
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Disputational Talk
-
Cumulative Talk
These could be used to structure specific
speaking and listening activities.
Making students aware of the ‘rules’ of the
type of talk being used may assist EAL
students in thinking the processes and
purposes at work.
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Copy and paste into your browser to
view Mercer’s book on Google Books.
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Thinking Together
 
http://thinkingtogether.educ.cam.ac.uk/resources/
Neil Mercer, along with a number of others, have
researched using talk as a means of ‘thinking
together’.
Children are explicitly taught about 
exploratory
talk
 (see last slide) in order to facilitate its use in
the classroom.
EAL learners may benefit from the focus on
speaking and listening, the non-competitive
nature of the talk, frequent modelling by teachers
and peers, explication of formal and informal
reasoning and merging of different types of
language (see slide 34)
The website below links to a number of
resources they have produced for teachers.
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Discussion Toolkit
There are many different ways to
structure discussion in the classroom.
I have collected a number together in
my ‘Discussion Toolkit’. This is available
to download free at -
http://www.tes.co.uk/resourcesHome.a
spx?navcode=70
Different discussion activities can be
used to assist EAL learners in speaking
and listening.
 
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What’s the point?
When planning, consider what the main
purpose of using language will be for
students in the lesson.
This may be used to:
-
Help structure (and link) tasks more
clearly,
-
Communicate explicit
expectations/goals to students
-
Provide accurate and graduated
scaffolding for students.
 
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Prior Knowledge
As in general, so with EAL students.
Eliciting prior knowledge is useful for the
teacher and student.
The intended learning is contextualized
(even if within the terms ‘this appears to
be something completely new’).
Some ways to establish prior knowledge:
-
KWL grids
-
Quick sharing of ideas (could use
snowballing)
-
A picture with question – “How might
this connect to…”
 
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Linguistic Diversity
‘Research has established that affording
bilingual children the opportunity to continue to
use their first language alongside English in
school for as long as possible, and to use it in
the context of cognitively demanding tasks,
will support both the academic achievement of
the child and the development of an additional
language’
Taken from
‘Unit 2 – Creating the learning culture’
of the DCSF document –
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One way to encourage this is by explicitly
celebrating linguistic diversity.
 
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Compare and Contrast
Encourage EAL students to compare
and contrast their first language
with English.
This could be facilitated by:
-
 providing grids or frames,
-
 asking them to look for patterns or
surprises,
-
 giving answers in English and their
first language, then looking at them
together.
 
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Analogies
Analogies reason that information can be
transferred from a source to a secondary
source.
For example, a car is like a cat because it has
a body and is bought by humans.
Using analogies assists EAL students by
connecting information. It offers an
alternative to logical reasoning that aids
understanding of words and concepts.
 
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Idioms
Idioms may prove difficult for
non-native speakers as they rely
on historical/cultural as well as
linguistic knowledge.
Take care to explain idioms when
using them (or ask students to
explain).
Using idioms as a tool to explore
language may be fruitful…
‘It’s raining cats and dogs’
contrasts with ‘It’s raining pestles
and mortars’ in Urdu.
 
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Recasting
Students may remain in their comfort zone
when developing EAL.
A way to avoid this is recasting.
If a student gives an answer or statement that
is grammatically incorrect, praise them for the
content of their answer and then recast it to
them as the prefix to a follow-up question.
e.g,
‘We play football yesterday’
‘Super answering of the question. 
When you
were playing football yesterday
, what
happened in the game?’
 
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Vocabulary Sequence
Here is a model of how to teach new
Vocabulary (taken from DFES guide):
• Model it in context
• Use it in questions
• Prompt for it and elicit it
• Repeat it
• Draw attention to it and use it in other contexts
• Display it
• Provide opportunities for children to practise it
• Give specific positive feedback about its use
• Encourage children to reflect on the way they
use it
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Barrier Games
A speaking and listening strategy requiring
students to give and receive instructions
across a physical barrier.
For example, two students sit at a desk with a
wooden board or folder upright in between.
Pupil A must instruct the Pupil B how to do
something (i.e. replicate a drawing that Pupil
A  can see but Pupil B cannot).
This structure can be used in varying
ways according to the aspects of language you
wish students to attend to or think about.
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Starting Points
Ensure starters are culturally familiar
to all students. This will help engage
and motivate EAL learners from
the beginning.
Example;
Starting to study Henry VIII: an image
of Henry could be replaced with a
variety of pictures of kings and
leaders. This is subsequently
connected to Henry.
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Listening Assistance
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Listening can be assisted in a number of
ways. When setting up tasks in which
students are to listen, try to ensure the talk
is:
-
Face to face
-
Supported by actions
-
Purposeful and immediate
-
Interesting, useful and relevant.
You could share these criteria with students
prior to the activity and ask how they are
going to ensure their talk facilitates the
listening by doing them.
Drama
Back to start
Using drama lets students practice
speaking and listening in a variety of roles
and situations.
Follow-up work can include;
-
analysing the effect of role/circumstance
on language
-
investigating the impact of purpose or
motive
-
examining how behaviour and language
interact
Diagrams
Back to start
Simple and effective.
Diagrams put verbal or
written propositions
another way.
Word Relationships
Back to start
Draw attention to the relationships
between words. Examples could be:
-
Homophones (a relationship of similarity
and
 difference)
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Roots e.g. muscle, muscular,
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Suffixes e.g. –ing, -ed, -er, -ism (prefixes
too)
Model Writing
Back to start
Set a question and then model a
written answer. Draw out how
construction takes place. Include
elements such as –
-
Rewriting at sentence level
-
Rewriting at word level
-
Making meaning precise
This could be developed by providing a
written answer and asking students to
rewrite, talking through the rationale
for what they have done after.
Word Taxonomy
Back to start
Delineate key words for students by placing them in a
taxonomy. E.g.
1 
Naming words: 
cell
, 
cytoplasm
, 
hydrogen
2 
Process words: 
diffusion
, 
digestion
, 
reflection
3 
Concept words: 
electromagnetism
, 
energy
, 
particles
(taken from Access and Engagement in Science, DfES, 2002 -
http://www.naldic.org.uk/docs/resources/documents/0610-
2002Science.pdf
DARTs
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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/documents/sec_re_e
al_access_engagRE.pdf
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  1. Made by Mike Gershon mikegershon@hotmail.com The EAL Toolkit: English as an Additional Language 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) My head Other people s heads

  2. Strategies Buddy Up Picture Rules Dictionary Images Sentence Starters Talk to support staff Role Models Pre-Teach Vocabulary Open Questions Rehearsal Concrete Starters Discussion Toolkit Whiteboards Questioning Support the Teacher Thinking Time Model Success Criteria Listening Frame Key Words Pre-Highlight First Language Purpose Allocate Roles Plan in 1st Language Match/Grid Writing Frame Plenary Prime Present Genre Modelling Vocabulary and Meaning Barrier Games Belonging Language Types Types of Talk Thinking Together What s the Point Prior Knowledge Linguistic Diversity Compare and Contrast Analogies Idioms Recasting Vocabulary Sequence Starting Points Listening Assistance Drama Diagrams Word Relationships Model Writing Word Taxonomy Darts

  3. Buddy Up Back to start If a pupil is learning English as an additional language, you could buddy them with a strong speaker and listener. This could be part of an induction programme, for specific activities such as group work or extended writing, or as an on-going strategy. The buddy-ing could be made explicit to students or left ambiguous, a decision probably best left to the teacher s discretion.

  4. Back to start Picture Rules An EAL students entry into the classroom could be eased by providing them with the class rules set out in picture form. Picture 1 Picture 5 Picture 2 Equally, if you have rules displayed in your classroom then supplement them with diagrams/pictures. If proving successful in individual classrooms, the strategy could be extended to whole school rules. Picture 4 Picture 3

  5. Dictionary Back to start A to Z Provide foreign-language dictionaries in your classroom (if your department can afford them!) and encourage students to use them. A simple starter could be for the whole class to look-up and translate key words. Native speakers could then teach correct pronunciations to each other (English and other languages).

  6. Images Back to start Supplement writing on PowerPoint, IWBs, worksheets etc. with images. Google images provides a quick and easy means to find suitable pictures.

  7. Sentence Starters Back to start Provide sentence starters (also a good way to get everybody down to writing). e.g. One side of the argument is... One side of the argument is Another side of the argument is... Therefore my conclusion is... In addition, sentence starters can be used to model academic language.

  8. Talk to support staff Back to start Find out what works with particular students. Discuss future planning and how the support staff can work most effectively in your lessons. Ask them to identify students strengths and weaknesses in learning EAL.

  9. Role Models Back to start 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.

  10. Pre-teach Vocabulary Back to start Change Cause Source Analysis Bias If there is additional support in school, it can be useful to pre-teach key vocabulary. This is particularly true if students are working or reading from textbooks, either individually or as a class. Additional support may also be able to provide extra visual aids, or assist in reading text in advance with students.

  11. Open Questions Back to start Open questions have many benefits. One may be the opportunity for EAL students to verbalise their reasoning. This gives the teacher a chance to analyse how they are using language in the subject i.e. Are there certain (subject) conventions which they are circumventing? (of course, this may turn out to be a good thing!)

  12. Rehearsal Back to start Prime EAL students that you will come to them for answers. Prime Ask them in the interim to orally rehearse these with a (helpful) peer. Rehearse This technique may be usefully applied to all students. Share

  13. Concrete Starters Back to start Use concrete rather than abstract starters. This may allow EAL students greater access to the beginning of the lesson. e.g. Matching words, matching words to pictures or grouping similar words.

  14. Whiteboards Back to start Mini-whiteboards offer a good link between talk and writing. Students are able to sketch and play with their written answers thanks to the impermanence. First Attempt Second Attempt Errors can be wiped away!

  15. Questioning Back to start Differentiating questioning helps to engage students throughout the classroom. In planning you could develop questions with your EAL students in mind. Or, develop a set of question stems you can adapt for students learning EAL.

  16. Support the Teacher Back to start If appropriate, ask classroom support to run the starter activity whilst you work with a pupils learning EAL. Or, ask a student (or 2-3) to plan and deliver a starter each week whilst you work with the pupils.

  17. Thinking Time Back to start Build thinking time into the lesson 30 seconds silent thinking from now. 30 Seconds Silent Thinking This allows all students to reflect on questions and content. Students learning EAL may further benefit from the extended time for processing.

  18. Back to start Model Speaking and Listening Model speaking and listening exchanges. This could be done with another adult or with a student. Modelling Observation A particularly powerful way might be if the class sit in a circle and you model with a partner in the middle (like a Goldfish Bowl). Improved Performance Showcase the importance of active listening.

  19. Speaking and Listening Success Criteria Back to start Make the success criteria for successful speaking and listening explicit. You must 1 You should 2 Supplement this with posters on the classroom walls reiterating in writing and pictures. Your could try to 3

  20. Listening Frame Back to start Provide a listening frame students whereby it is clear what areas you would like them to make notes on. Topic 1 Topic 2 Topic 3 This could be extended by pr cising the subsequent talk/clip and asking students to prepare a suitable listening frame.

  21. Listening for Key Words Back to start Set explicit listening tasks around key words either for the whole class or individual students. River Lake Map 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

  22. Pre-Highlight Back to start Run-off an extra copy of texts or handouts with key-words or passages already highlighted

  23. First Language 1st Language 1st Back to start Sprache Pupils can be encouraged to use their first language where appropriate, particularly if there is a support teacher or students with whom they can talk and then translate.

  24. Make talk purposeful Back to start Ensure that the talk built into lessons is purposeful. Purpose This could be through a tight structure with roles, targets such as solving a particular problem or using it as a rehearsal for written arguments. Intention

  25. Allocate Roles Back to start Allocate specific roles in group work. This ensures students know exactly what is expected of them and provides them with a concept to perform to (i.e. Question setter, challenger, note-taker)

  26. Plan in first language Back to start Think Encourage students to talk or write in their first language when attempting to answer a question or planning their Plan in First Language response. Attempt in English

  27. Matching or Grid Activities Back to start Provide matching or grid type activities for students. Give some model answers to show what is expected. Set the difficulty so that some investigation and collaborative work is required.

  28. Writing Frame Back to start Provide students with a list of words and phrases appropriate for use in the writing task set. Starting Words e.g. Descriptive Words Write a news report on the water cycle Good evening viewers Precipitation In the mountains... Clouds The sun shining on the sea... Key Terminology

  29. Plenary Prime Back to start At the lesson start tell pupils you will come to them in the plenary. This gives time to plan a response. Plenary Lesson Prime

  30. Presentation Tips Back to start Explicitly model and explain how to present to the rest of the class. Include basics such as standing up, facing the audience, speaking at the right speed and volume. Tip 1 Tip 2 Tip 3

  31. Genre Modelling Back to start Provide students with a detailed model or scaffold of the particular school genre you are working on. This could be the essay, story writing, report, experimental procedure etc. Two ideas are; i) Use student work from previous years as a model. Highlight the genre structure within. ii) Provide a detailed structure- framework for the students that breaks down the genre into constituent elements. This could be supplemented with sentence starters/content cues for each section.

  32. Vocabulary and Meaning Back to start This strategy is in two parts. Part One Part 1 Give students a list of key words in English and ask them to translate into their first language using a dictionary. Part 2 Give students a table of meanings of (some of) the initial English words. Ask students to complete the table by correctly matching the words to the meanings. Part Two

  33. Belonging Back to start Abraham Maslow s hierarchy of human needs points to safety and belonging as prerequisites for learning and development. EAL learners may be further from these because of the communication gap. Strategies to give EAL learners a sense of safety and belonging in the classroom may include (amongst many): -Bilingual dictionaries -Letting the student know in advance if you are going to ask them a public question. -Reacting positively to mistakes (including your own) and using them to further learning. http://powerwillmotivation.com/images/abraham_maslow_quote_hierarchy_of_needs.jpg

  34. Different Types of Language Back to start Jim Cummins identified three different types of language relevant to learners. Communicative Language or, conversational fluency. Develops first, in face-to-face settings. Cognitive Language develops through investigating, exploring ideas and solving problems. Academic Language passive voice, ideas and concepts as agents, vocabulary with Greek or Latin roots, metaphor, personification and nominalization. The latter two are required for educational success. The model could provide a framework for tasks or structuring of work. DFES document from which this is adapted: http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=fM4KdFOicGcC&dq=cummins+ language+power+and+pedagogy&printsec=frontcover&source=bn& hl=en&ei=i7vBS-CKG5- y0gTHxaidCQ&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=4&ved=0 CBgQ6AEwAw#v=onepage&q&f=false http://nationalstrategies.stand ards.dcsf.gov.uk/primary/publi cations/inclusion/bi_children/ Cummins book on Google Books:

  35. Types of Talk Back to start Neil Mercer identified three types of talk in his 2000 book, Words and Minds ; -Exploratory Talk -Disputational Talk -Cumulative Talk These could be used to structure specific speaking and listening activities. Making students aware of the rules of the type of talk being used may assist EAL students in thinking the processes and purposes at work. http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=uNtkuYihpM8C&p rintsec=frontcover&dq=words+and+minds&source=bl& ots=VlSd17RAhR&sig=gisZSCdFj07eVdzh- eK_3CixEtw&hl=en&ei=4tDBS9nNOoii0gSq_vikCQ&s a=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=3&ved=0CBU Q6AEwAg#v=onepage&q&f=false Copy and paste into your browser to view Mercer s book on Google Books.

  36. Thinking Together Back to start Neil Mercer, along with a number of others, have researched using talk as a means of thinking together . Children are explicitly taught about exploratory talk (see last slide) in order to facilitate its use in the classroom. EAL learners may benefit from the focus on speaking and listening, the non-competitive nature of the talk, frequent modelling by teachers and peers, explication of formal and informal reasoning and merging of different types of language (see slide 34) The website below links to a number of resources they have produced for teachers. http://thinkingtogether.educ.cam.ac.uk/resources/

  37. Discussion Toolkit Back to start There are many different ways to structure discussion in the classroom. I have collected a number together in my Discussion Toolkit . This is available to download free at - http://www.tes.co.uk/resourcesHome.a spx?navcode=70 Different discussion activities can be used to assist EAL learners in speaking and listening.

  38. Whats the point? Back to start Purpose When planning, consider what the main purpose of using language will be for students in the lesson. This may be used to: -Help structure (and link) tasks more clearly, -Communicate explicit expectations/goals to students Goal -Provide accurate and graduated scaffolding for students.

  39. Prior Knowledge Back to start As in general, so with EAL students. Eliciting prior knowledge is useful for the teacher and student. The intended learning is contextualized (even if within the terms this appears to be something completely new ). Some ways to establish prior knowledge: -KWL grids -Quick sharing of ideas (could use snowballing) -A picture with question How might this connect to

  40. Linguistic Diversity Back to start Research has established that affording bilingual children the opportunity to continue to use their first language alongside English in school for as long as possible, and to use it in the context of cognitively demanding tasks, will support both the academic achievement of the child and the development of an additional language Taken from Unit 2 Creating the learning culture of the DCSF document Excellence and Enjoyment: Learning and teaching for bilingual children in the primary years One way to encourage this is by explicitly celebrating linguistic diversity.

  41. Compare and Contrast Back to start Encourage EAL students to compare and contrast their first language with English. This could be facilitated by: - providing grids or frames, - asking them to look for patterns or surprises, - giving answers in English and their first language, then looking at them together.

  42. Analogies Back to start Analogies reason that information can be transferred from a source to a secondary source. For example, a car is like a cat because it has a body and is bought by humans. Using analogies assists EAL students by connecting information. It offers an alternative to logical reasoning that aids understanding of words and concepts.

  43. Idioms Back to start Idioms may prove difficult for non-native speakers as they rely on historical/cultural as well as linguistic knowledge. It s raining pestles and mortars It s raining cats and dogs Take care to explain idioms when using them (or ask students to explain). Using idioms as a tool to explore language may be fruitful It s raining cats and dogs contrasts with It s raining pestles and mortars in Urdu.

  44. Recasting Back to start Students may remain in their comfort zone when developing EAL. A way to avoid this is recasting. If a student gives an answer or statement that is grammatically incorrect, praise them for the content of their answer and then recast it to them as the prefix to a follow-up question. e.g, We play football yesterday Super answering of the question. When you were playing football yesterday, what happened in the game?

  45. Back to start Vocabulary Sequence Here is a model of how to teach new Vocabulary (taken from DFES guide): Model it in context Use it in questions Prompt for it and elicit it Repeat it Draw attention to it and use it in other contexts Display it Provide opportunities for children to practise it Give specific positive feedback about its use Encourage children to reflect on the way they use it

  46. Back to start Barrier Games A speaking and listening strategy requiring students to give and receive instructions across a physical barrier. For example, two students sit at a desk with a wooden board or folder upright in between. Pupil A must instruct the Pupil B how to do something (i.e. replicate a drawing that Pupil A can see but Pupil B cannot). This structure can be used in varying ways according to the aspects of language you wish students to attend to or think about.

  47. Back to start Starting Points Ensure starters are culturally familiar to all students. This will help engage and motivate EAL learners from the beginning. Example; Starting to study Henry VIII: an image of Henry could be replaced with a variety of pictures of kings and leaders. This is subsequently connected to Henry.

  48. Back to start Listening Assistance Listening can be assisted in a number of ways. When setting up tasks in which students are to listen, try to ensure the talk is: Purposeful and Immediate Interesting, Useful and Relevant Face to Face Supported by Actions -Face to face -Supported by actions -Purposeful and immediate -Interesting, useful and relevant. You could share these criteria with students prior to the activity and ask how they are going to ensure their talk facilitates the listening by doing them.

  49. Back to start Drama Using drama lets students practice speaking and listening in a variety of roles and situations. Follow-up work can include; Follow-Up Work -analysing the effect of role/circumstance on language -investigating the impact of purpose or motive Practice Through Drama -examining how behaviour and language interact

  50. Back to start Diagrams Simple and effective. Diagrams put verbal or written propositions another way.

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