Blog
Notes on teaching multilingual learners
EAL practice, research, and news about the tools on this site.
- Welcome to the EAL ToolboxWhy I am building free tools for teachers of multilingual learners, and what is coming first.
- Linguistic Safeguarding: Defending the pedagogic rights of learners using EALMy EAL Journal article on the pedagogic rights of learners using EAL.
- Translanguaging: Boost multilingual learningTranslanguaging is more than translating: the 'I say, I say, Compare' routine.
- Barrier Games: Communicative vocabulary learningA quick-to-prepare barrier game for communicative vocabulary practice.
- Reading Races: Boost fluency and energise learnersOne-minute team reading races that build fluency and get learners excited about reading.
- Shouting Dictations: Turn Reading into CommunicationTwo gapped versions of one text turn a reading task into a four-skills speaking activity.
- Grass Skirts: Great for Practice Stage GrammaringTurn grammar worksheets into tear-off strips for movement, pace and instant feedback.
- Good ideasSome of the activities I do from time to time in class, and why I do them.
- Prevention is better than the cure: an ecological approach to EAL provisionWhat a cardiologist's focus on prevention can teach us about whole-school EAL provision.
- About MeA little about me.
- My publications.A list of my publications, the most recent at the top.
- Is it all really so bad? Reasons to be positive about the future of EAL.Why British international schools give reasons to be positive about the future of EAL.
- Effective Questioning: The CCQ FrameworkA three-level framework for concept checking questions that puts students at the centre of the lesson.