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NALDIC EAL and Additional Needs Conference

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Summer Conference in collaboration with The National Centre for Language and Literacy, Reading University

EAL and Additional Needs

 

9.00 – 10.15      Arrival and Registration          

 

10.15 – 10.20     Welcome and introduction to the Conference  (NALDIC/NCLL)

 

10.20 – 10.40     Opening Address - Dr Tony Cline

                        Diverging approaches to special educational needs in England and Scotland and their                               implications  for children learning English as an additional language’

  

10.40 – 11.20     Presentations by 4 main speakers:

 

Dr Tony Cline: ‘EAL learners and dyslexia’

Anne Margaret Smith: ‘Co-occurring Specific Learning Differences’

Dr Sean Pert: ‘Developing a language therapy package to meet the needs of EAL learners’

                        Dr Theo Marinis: ‘The use of sentence repetition tasks to assess the language abilities of                        sequential bilingual children with specific language impairment’

 

11.20 – 11.40     Tea/coffee

                       

            11.40 – 11.55     An introduction to the National Centre for Language and Literacy

                        Professor Viv Edwards, Professor of Language in Education/Director of NCLL

                                   

11.55 -1.15         Parallel seminars by main speakers

                        

1.15 – 2.30        Visit to NCLL, Lunch, Resource Exhibitions and Poster Presentations        

 

Afternoon session


2.30 – 3.45        Parallel workshop sessions

 

Amy Thompson: ‘The place of mother-tongue assessment in identifying additional needs of EAL learners’

Carolyn Blackburn: ‘The Diverse communication needs of young children in the Foundation Stage: reflecting on policy to practice issues’

Peta Ullmann: Selective mutism and the bilingual learner

 

3.45 – 4.15        Feedback from seminars / workshops

 

4.15          Conference ends, tea / coffee / cold drinks

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