Summary Why do our EAL students learn English? What is a text? Why are we using texts in teaching language? What are language skills? What is the focus when working with EAL students? Linking to differentiation Already have the Collaborative Classroom – 50 Cooperative Learning Strategies for Student Engagement? Send us feedback here Want the …
By Boney Nathan Edited by Quanita Nathan Learners of English as an Additional Language (EAL) are learning a language in the language they are learning. This means they are learning the behaviour and expectations of the target language in a language that they have yet to connect with. Nothing really makes sense in the …
The 1990s movement for teaching English through communicative approaches shifted the focus from rote learning and daily drilling to thinking about language acquisition. Linguists began to investigate how learners could use their language skills to communicate more naturally rather than mechanically repeating chunks of memorised speech patterns. Rote learning created decontextualized learning that learners had …
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In the 21st century, there has been a huge transformation in teaching English due to the ongoing refugee crisis and globalisation of migration that includes refugees, skilled workers, and people simply looking to live a different type of life. The language currency for most of today’s world is the English language. So, no matter what …
