ALC Newsletter - 03/11/2013 (Plain Text Version)
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In this issue: • LANGUAGE LANDSCAPES, TESOL ITALY'S 37TH NATIONAL CONVENTION BEST PRACTICESARKTESOL • ARKTESOL DEVELOPS CONVENTION CENTER PARTNERSHIP INTESOL • TRAINING BURMESE REFUGEES AS COMMUNITY Maryland TESOL • SHADOWING TO FIND AN INSTRUCTIONAL MATCH TESOL Arabia • TESOL ARABIA CONTINUES TO GROW TESOL Greece • PSYCHOLOGY AND ELT: EGO DEPLETION: 'I CAN RESIST ANYTHING - PROVIDED THAT'S THE ONLY THING I HAVE TO DO!' WELCOME NEW AFFILIATES • AAELTA HAS BECOME TESOL'S AFFILIATE • TESOL SUDAN 2011 - 2012 NEWSLETTER 47TH ANNUAL TESOL CONVENTION AND EXHIBIT • 2013 BEST OF AFFILIATES SESSIONS • ALC COLLOQUIUM 2013 |
NALDIC CONFERENCE 20: READING ENGLISH AS AN ADDITIONAL LANGUAGE
Marilyn Abbott's recent presentation at the 20th NALDIC Annual Conference, November 17, 2012, gave conference goers a wealth of strategies to draw on when working with EAL and bilingual learners. The conference, organised in partnership with the National Centre for Language and Literacy at the University of Reading, gave participants the opportunity to immerse themselves in aspects of reading, the use of stories and reading skills, and strategies for bilingual learners. At a time when Ofsted's (the national schools inspection service) “outstanding” achievement criteria require schools to ensure that “pupils read widely and often across all subjects,” reading in all its richness is firmly back on the agenda. Conference goers were treated to a wealth of ideas about reading across age groups, subjects, and settings from Dan Lea's “Feast of Stories” to Eve Gregory's “Becoming Literate Through Faith Activities in the Home” to Matt Cooley's immersive approaches to literacy. Charlotte Franson offered conference attendees a review of approaches to reading in different Anglophone countries, and Yvonne Foley led an engaging and thought-provoking workshop on critical literacy and EAL reading, More About Marilyn Abbotts's Work Marilyn Abbott and her colleagues research and write about a number of issues: second language learning, pedagogy, testing and assessment, and teachers’ professional development, all pertaining to ESL (EAL) teaching and learning. What is very evident is that although the geographic context is different—her work is in Canada—many of the issues regarding ESL provision and teacher education resonate with those here in England. Some of her work has focused on the use of story in the ESL classroom, a study resulting in observations and recommendations that EAL teachers would recognize the value of story and personal stories as a means to developing speaking and writing and the power of personal narratives to motivate learners to learn. Marilyn Abbott and her colleagues also research teacher education not only to improve practice but to improve and promote more democratic and inclusive ways of working with schools and communities to enable ESL learners’ learning. Developing more effective pedagogy to enable EAL learners to succeed linguistically and academically is dependent in part on a foundation of good research that is accessible to and useful for teachers. Read more about NALDIC’s 20th annual conference at www.naldic.org.uk. <need author bios> |
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