Supporting English Language Acquisition

You will play a key role in supporting children’s and young people’s Language Acquisition in particular when they are New to English. Focusing on Survival Language – see the video – Survival Language will offer the necessary building blocks of communication that will enable EAL children to build their confidence and independence.

Glow users can access Glasgow City Council’s EAL Glow Tile (ask for access) with plenty of resources and sign posts from Glasgow EAL Teachers. EAL Glow Tile and EAL YouTube Channel for inspirations, tutorials and resources EAL Glasgow GCC YouTube.

The following resource – Learning in 2+ Languages– aims to help those working with bilingual learners by identifying good practice in supporting children whose first language is not English to access the curriculum

Learning in two languages

There are also number of online resources and websites that can be used at home to support the survival language and English Language Acquisition. Here are some helpful links:

British Council Teens 

The Bell-Foundation

BBC 6 mins English

BBC Bitesize