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4th July 2015

IPC Summer School

Across Cultures will be demonstrating the Learning Village and sharing more about their EAL training at the IPC summer school: Annual European Summer School 29th – […]
29th June 2015

Do your EAL learners need some help with their spellings?

Authors: Anita Bamberger and Caroline Scott   Many of us learned to spell as children without being specifically taught sounds. In the past, the teaching of […]
21st June 2015

‘Train the Trainer’ New York, 22nd -24th June 2015, New York

Send a senior member of staff to become an EAL Teacher Trainer with the tools, manuals and resources to train others in your school. Teaching new-to-English […]
30th May 2015

The Role of an EAL Teacher

In previous articles we discussed the need for learners to obtain Basic Interpersonal Communication Skills (BICS). These skills need to be the initial focus of learning […]
6th May 2015

The importance of literature

This morning, my 4-year-old woke up and said, “Mummy, there are two languages – child’s language and adult language”. I asked her what she meant and […]
13th April 2015

What more can you do to help your intermediate EAL Learners?

The transition from EAL beginner to intermediate learner can take from one term to a year depending on the learner. A beginner EAL learner is learning […]
2nd April 2015

IPC Conferences 2015

Across Cultures will be demonstrating the Learning Village and sharing more about their EAL training at the following 3 IPC conferences: IPC Regional Conference – Birmingham […]
2nd March 2015

The Power of Online Learning

Recently we have been looking closely at the power of using online learning through the Learning Village by studying the assessment results of learners who were […]
28th February 2015

Feedback

Feedback is the buzz-word and, as with most things, it is not being reinvented, but constantly readapted. In recent years, we see more formal national approach. […]
4th February 2015

EAL Assessment Continuum

Including a useful EAL Progress Review and links to different EAL assessment continua When teaching EAL, assessment procedures need to be in place in order to […]
30th December 2014

Differentiating Learning

Including some ideas for EAL beginners Whilst reading a book on reclaiming childhood (‘Their name is today’ by Johann Christoph Arnold) the chapter on ‘learning differences […]
24th December 2014

Uprooted: Bridging cultures and celebrating the differences

Author: Coreen Sears   Including 5 top tips to celebrating differences Last week I saw a film called ‘Shadow in Baghdad’, it was a film that […]
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