English as an Additional Language (EAL)

Advice and guidance booklet drawn from existing good practice developed by practitioners working with babies and young children whose families have a home language other than English. Ref: 00683-2007BKT-EN Publication date: October 2007

Materials to support learning and teaching for bilingual children who are conversationally fluent in English. This resource provides the context and strategies needed to develop pupils’ speaking and listening as a tool for learning English. Includes Professional Development Modules (PDMs) and teaching units focusing on establishing curriculum targets, speaking and listening, integrated planning, culture and identity and assessment. Ref: 0013-2006PCK-EN Publication date: January 2006

This guidance focuses primarily on meeting the needs of pupils who have arrived in school as a result of international migration. However, the guidance may be more widely applicable to a number of groups of mobile pupils who arrive in school outside standard admission times. Ref: 00650-2007BKT-EN Publication date: September 2007

Management guide to support schools in personalising the learning of pupils of Pakistani, Bangladeshi, Somali and Turkish heritage in order to raise their attainment. Ref: 00069-2007BKT-EN Publication date: March 2007

Continuing professional development (CPD) modules focused on ensuring the attainment of more advanced learners of English as an additional language (EAL). Modules included focus on analysing writing, making sense of literacy targets, talk as a tool for thinking, bridging talk and text, reading as a writer, thinking and writing as a writer, Ethnic Minority Achievement (EMA) coordinators, parents and community. Ref: 00045-2009 Publication date: May 2009