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NALDIC is the national subject association for English as an additional language (EAL). Our mission is to promote the effective teaching and learning of EAL and bilingual pupils in UK schools. We provide a welcoming, professional forum to learn more about EAL and bilingual learners. We promote EAL research, understanding and best practice and promote plurilingualism within our multilingual society.

We chose this case study because it is an example of a teacher who noticed a group of pupils were falling behind in a particular subject and how she went about closing the attainment gap.

The teacher, an ethnic minorities achievement grant (EMA) co-ordinator, set out to investigate why the students of Pakistani origin could achieve Level 5 in English in the KS3 SATs, but not in Science.

She found that the EAL learners felt they needed:specific teaching of key wordsa scaffolding for writing up practical work.

Una ricerca del San Raffaele sostiene che il cervello di chi parla due lingue riesce a scegliere in situazioni conflittuali in modo più veloce e con meno sforzo, rispetto a chi ne usa una sola. Un vantaggio in termini di capacità cognitive che non ha niente a che fare con il linguaggio

IT'S never too late to learn another language. Surprisingly, under controlled conditions adults turn out to be better than children at acquiring a new language skill.

But some linguists now question whether this apparent difference in language-learning ability reflects our attitudes to young children and adults rather than differences in the brain.

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