Adaptive Teaching for Learners Using EAL (Online Course)

Module 1: Effective EAL strategies

Pre-webinar online tasks, completed at your own pace over a one-week period.

You will:

• Learn about the core principles underpinning effective adaptive teaching for EAL learners and consider how these might overlap with or differ from adaptive teaching strategies for all learners.
• Explore some effective strategies that you can implement immediately to better support your learners using EAL.
• Evaluate different strategies and consider their use in your own teaching context.
• Learn about translanguaging and how it can be used to enhance learning for multilingual learners.

Time commitment: minimum 2 hours.

Module 2: Adapting strategies and materials for multilingual learners

Live interactive webinar with the course tutors: 

• Primary: 20 May 2026, 10:30 UK time (UTC+1). 
• Secondary: 21 May 2026, 10:30 UK time (UTC+1).

You will:

• Learn about the research on language proficiency and academic achievement.
• Consider different ways to adapt EAL strategies for different English proficiency levels.
• Consider how to adapt curricular materials for different profiles of EAL learner.

Time commitment: 1 hour.

Module 3: Implementation

You will:

• Explore in more depth how to successfully adapt different activities for EAL learners.
• Complete a final project where you can choose to adapt a specific strategy, adapt a curricular task or evaluate and adapt and existing resource.
• Receive developmental feedback from your tutor on your project.

Time commitment: minimum 2 hours.