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In this edition, Hamish Chalmers provides a primer on the key questions teachers and researchers have about the education of children learning English as an Additional Language (EAL).
About the author
Tom Bennett is the founder of researchED, a grass-roots organisation that aims to raise research literacy in education and campaigns for better evidence awareness worldwide. It now holds events globally, attracting thousands of followers and generating discussion and change in schools throughout the world. In 2015, Tom became the UK government's school behaviour tsar, advising on behaviour policy as well as chairing the Mental Health in Schools panel. He has written five books about teacher training and in 2015 was longlisted as one of the world's top teachers in the Varkey Foundation's Global Teacher Prize. In the same year he was listed as one of The Huffington Post's top 10 global teacher bloggers. Tom is the director of Tom Bennett Training, which works exclusively with the most disadvantaged students and schools in England, helping them to turn around, and he is a teacher-fellow of Corpus Christi College, University of Cambridge. His online resources have been viewed more than 1,200,000 times. Tom was appointed OBE in the 2022 New Year Honours for his significant contribution to education.
Summary
In this edition, Hamish Chalmers provides a primer on the key questions teachers and researchers have about the education of children learning English as an Additional Language (EAL). From the general implications of teaching children in a language that many are still in the process of learning, to the specifics of EAL-friendly pedagogy, this volume includes contributions from both teachers and researchers in the field: Victoria Murphy, Constant Leung, Jonathan Bifield, Feyisa Demie, Ann-Margaret Smith, Naomi Flynn, Holly Joseph, Tracey Costley, Xiao Lan Curdt-Christiansen, and Eowyn Crisfield.
Hamish Chalmers is a lecturer and EAL researcher at the University of Oxford, vice-chair of NALDIC — the UK’s EAL subject association — and erstwhile primary school teacher, both in the UK and overseas.
