Emergent Language: Exploit Unplanned Opportunities for Language Development (Webinar)

This webinar helps international school teachers of any subject make the most of unplanned opportunities for language development in multilingual classrooms.

Are you an international school teacher looking to support your students’ English language development? 

Emergent language is the unplanned language needed or produced by learners during classroom interactions. This webinar will explore how primary and secondary teachers in international school settings can work more effectively with emergent language to support EAL learners’ language development.  

Hosted by Tom Beakes, experienced trainer from The Bell Foundation, this webinar will equip you with strategies and techniques for helping EAL learners notice and refine new language as it emerges spontaneously during lessons. Tom will also look at ways to ‘plan for the unplanned’ and examine how teachers can create the right conditions to record, reuse and embed emergent language in their day-to-day teaching. 

Areas of focus will include:

  • Examples and benefits of focussing on emergent language; 
  • Identifying opportunities and intervention techniques for addressing language in mainstream lessons (Chin & Norrington Davies, 2022); 
  • Collaboration between EAL specialists and subject specialists/class teachers. 

Chinn, R. and Norrington-Davies, D., 2022. Working with emergent language. Pavilion. 

Who should register for the webinar

Primary and secondary international school staff, including:  

  • EAL coordinators;  
  • Classroom and subject teachers; 
  • EAL teachers; 
  • Teaching assistants; 
  • Anyone with responsibility for EAL and/or CPD.  

Please note: this webinar is for international participants only. Please click here to view our upcoming webinars and online courses for those living and working in the UK. 

Why you should register for the webinar

  • Feel more confident addressing spontaneous language learning opportunities in multilingual classrooms.  
  • Learn how to deal with emergent language in a more systematic and principled way. 
  • Be able to identify the most effective linguistic intervention types for your own context.  

If you have any questions that specifically relate to the webinar topic which you would like answered during the live session, please send them to: webinar@bell-foundation.org.uk

If the webinar is full, please complete the Wait List form during the booking process on Eventbrite and you will be contacted if a place becomes available. Everyone on the Wait List will be sent a copy of the webinar recording.

Ticket sales close 26 February 2025 9:00 UK time (UTC+0).

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Important notice: there are only two websites authorised to promote and take bookings for this event run by The Bell Foundation. These are: The Bell Foundation’s website and Eventbrite. Please do not book, or express interest in, this event through any other website or platform. 

Your speaker, Tom Beakes

Tom Beakes at The Bell Foundation

Tom Beakes joined The Bell Foundation in 2020. Tom has worked in language education since 2003 and has taught in China, Japan, Ecuador and north Africa. His main areas of interest are international education and teacher development. He holds an MA in anthropological linguistics and is CELTA and DELTA qualified. He has worked as a teacher trainer in the UK and abroad and is a regular speaker and presenter at EAL events.  

Event details

Price

Free

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