Bilingual Learners Teachers' Workbook

Subject: English as an Additional Language
Level: Secondary
Age Group: 11 - 14
Order Number: 5122

Bilingual and ethnic minority learners are a small but significant proportion of the UK's school population. Properly supported, they can achieve in line with their ability and be a great asset to any school. This book shows how bilingual pupils of all ages including new arrivals, can be helped to flourish. Chapters include:

• What constitutes a bilingual learner?
• Cultural issues
• New arrivals
• Older new arrivals and secondary schools
• Principles and practice of language acquisition
• The role of support staff
• Dealing with racism
• Working with parents
• Literacy and numeracy
• Language and body language
• Bilingual learners and underachievement
• Differentiation

Finally there are more than 20 pages of resources for bilingual learners.

The author has many years experience in supporting pupils with EAL, advising schools with newly arrived bilingual learners, and training mainstream and support staff. For readers new to working with bilingual learners, this book outlines the dos and don'ts and is a good basis for building confidence and expertise. More experienced staff will probably find much of the book familiar territory, but will also be able to consolidate and develop their skill by developing the ideas included in it. Class and subject teachers will find many of the techniques not only enhance the learning of bilingual children, but that of their monolingual classmates too.