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Last November, as Initial Teacher Education (ITE) providers were drawing the Autumn term to a close – in what now feels like a completely different age before anybody had heard the words COVID-19 – ITE tutors and mentors learned that the Department for Education had released the new ITT Core Content Framework, months ahead of … Continued

This blog highlights some of the particular challenges that parents of EAL learners may face at this time of school closures and signposts practical steps that schools can take to ensure EAL families know how to support the learning of their child. The child and parents’ home language(s) are a resource that can be used … Continued

A special joint webinar co-hosted by The Bell Foundation and NALDIC, the National Association for Language Development in the Curriculum, which took place on April 23, 2020 proved so popular that we had to increase our web hosting capacity to run it. But one common feature of these new and changing times where life has … Continued

The Bell Foundation, together with Unbound Philanthropy and the Department of Education at the University of Oxford, has published research on the educational attainment of children with English as an Additional Language (EAL) undertaken by Professor Steve Strand and Dr Ariel Lindorff. Hot on the heels of the report ‘English as an Additional Language: Proficiency … Continued

Research ‘English as an Additional Language: Proficiency in English, educational achievement and rate of progression in English language learning’¹ published today by the University of Oxford, The Bell Foundation and Unbound Philanthropy is the latest report in a research programme on English as an Additional Language (EAL).  The report provides vital insights into how long … Continued

The simplicity of the term ‘English as an Additional Language’ (EAL) masks the complexity and diversity of this group of learners, and new arrivals are no different. Their language proficiency can range from ‘New to English’ to ‘Fluent¹’. The young person can arrive at any age, and different learners come from different socio-economic and educational … Continued