An EAL/D handbook

Synopsis

"Nearly half (45%) of all young people in Australia aged 12 to 24 are first- or second-generation migrants. Providing our EAL/D students with the teaching they need to succeed at school is critical to the quality of their integration into community, and for access to opportunities to achieve future goals.In this book, after exploring who are EAL/D learners, scaffolding and the assessment of EAL/D learners, readers are invited into seven classrooms. In each of these classrooms, teachers share illustrations of practice designed to enable EAL/D learners to engage with curriculum. Every chapter is build on a foundation of successful EAL/D teaching and learning practices:addressing the potential impact of EAL/D on student wellbeingdeveloping student language with an initial focus on listeningusing first languages/dialects and cultural knowledge as resourcesexplicit teaching of everyday, social language use, as well as academic languagebuilding vocabularyrepresenting curriculum content in multiple ways, including concrete and visual representationsproviding scaffolded support so students can engage meaningfully with age-appropriate, engaging and challenging curriculum contentWith contributions by Jenny Hammond, Gill Pennington, Jon Callow and Helen Cozmescu, among notable others from the field of language education, mentors provide academic context to support transfer to other settings, and an introduction by Susan Feez and Helen Harper offers a thorough overview of EAL/D teaching and learning practice."

Copyright:

1968

Book Details

Book Quality:

Publisher Quality

ISBN-13:

9781925132601

Related ISBNs:

9781925132595

Publisher:

Primary English Teaching Association Australia

Date of Addition:

11/17/25

Copyrighted By:

Primary English Teaching Association Australia

Adult content:

No

Language:

English

Has Image Descriptions:

No

Categories:

Nonfiction

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Bookshare Staff

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This is a copyrighted book.