The Language-Friendly School: Developing Policies to Promote Language & Literacy Development

Investigating the patterns of underachievement among multilingual learners & discussing whole-school approaches to reversing these patterns.
Video contents:
00:00 - Introduction
08:07 - Goals & outline of the presentation
13:57 - A sketch of the evolution of EAL provision over the past 50 years
21:15 - Bilingual pupils' academic development: some relevant research evidence
25:13 - What constitutes high quality evidence-based instructional environments for bilingual learners?
41:13 - Q & A
52:43 - Conclusion