Edge hill uni handout
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This document provides resources for supporting English as an additional language (EAL) students in the modern foreign language classroom. It lists websites for audio support tools like Audacity and Voki that can help EAL students practice speaking. It also lists sites for visual support like Google's language search engines, image galleries and graphic organizers that can aid EAL students in building vocabulary and comprehension. Links to blogs and articles on teaching EAL students in language classes are also included.
Edge hill uni handout
- 1. Supporting EAL Students in the MFL Classroom, Friday 21st December, Edge Hill University Isabelle Jones, Head of Languages, The Radclyffe School, Oldham @icpjones http://twitter.com/icpjones A downloadable copy of the presentation for this training session will be available from: My Languages Blog http://isabellejones.blogspot.com NALDIC National Association for Language Development in the Curriculum (National Subject Association for EAL) http://www.naldic.org.uk/ http://twitter.com/#!/naldic http://groups.google.com/group/eal-bilingual Realising Equality and Achievement for Learners (REAL), London Gifted and Talented http://www.realproject.org.uk/ Newbury Park: Language of the month http://www.newburypark.redbridge.sch.uk/langofmonth/ Audio support: Audacity free sound editing software http://audacity.sourceforge.net/download/ Create your own speaking avatars with Voki http://www.voki.com/ Text-to-speech software http://text-to-speech.imtranslator.net/ Visual support: Google France & Spain search engine http://www.google.fr http://www.google.es NEN Gallery http://gallery.nen.gov.uk/ Flickr http://www.flickr.com Visual search http://www.wordsift.com Tag Galaxy http://taggalaxy.de/ Create word clouds http://www.wordle.net Pinterest http://pinterest.com/ Graphic organisers, mind-mapping software and interactive visuals http://freemind.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/Main_Page http://www.mindomo.com http://classtool.net http://www.triptico.co.uk TES: Second Language, First-class result http://www.tes.co.uk/article.aspx?storycode=6179208 The Picture is Patchy on non-native speakers http://www.tes.co.uk/article.aspx?storycode=6241719 http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/immigration/8666450/If-you-dont-speak-English- you-cant-belong-in-Britain.html