Scaffolding Language and Learning Across the Curriculum for EAL Learners
This training will help your teachers support EAL (English as an Additional Language) learners in accessing the curriculum using talk strategies, active reading, and supported writing processes.
It is suitable for all teachers with English Language Learners in their classes and EAL Coordinators.
For many EAL learners, accessing the curriculum can be a challenging task. Language plays a critical role in the learning of any discipline. Learning the language of a discipline in context is crucial, so EAL students have concrete references for the language of the subject they are learning. This training explores the strategies we can use to support EAL students learn a discipline and the language of the discipline simultaneously. This informed approach, based on the latest research in language acquisition, provides effective, differentiated student support.
Listen to an interview HERE to get a flavour of the course.
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By the end of this training participants learn and leave the course confident in knowing:
• how to scaffold language and learning of a discipline simultaneously through specific activities and sequencing of tasks;
• the processes and strategies required to meet the language demands of the curriculum;
• how to use talk to support language development;
• processes to support the development of writing;
• concrete strategies to scaffold reading of texts;
• know how to examine & deconstruct model texts
• know how to facilitate joint construction to facilitate writing;
• know how to use writing frames to support independent writing;
• how to use the modelled activities and processes with students in class.
Scaffolding Writing Across the Curriculum
For many EAL learners speaking and listening skills develop faster than writing. This course shows you how to bring writing up to speed.
The course has been designed to model activities and processes you can use with students in class as well as explain the theory behind these. The course will:
demonstrate how to deconstruct texts so the structure and language of texts is made explicit to students;
demonstrate how to model the writing process and jointly produce texts with students;
explore how talk can be used to aid thinking and first draft writing.
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By the end of this training participants learn and leave the course confident in knowing:
• the stages to follow to create effective writers of all types of texts;
• the different non-fiction genres and their conventions;
• how to deconstruct texts so the structure and language of texts is made explicit to students;
• how to model writing and jointly construct texts in real time so students can learn experientially;
• know how to scaffold and sequence tasks to support writing;
• know how to use writing frames to support independent writing;
• how to scaffold written language and learning of a discipline simultaneously through specific activities and sequencing of tasks;
• the processes and strategies required to meet the language demands of the curriculum;
• the processes required to support the development of writing;
• how to use the modelled activities and processes with students in class.