By using different types of technology, we offer enhanced opportunities for our young people to activate their prior knowledge. “The combination of text, pictures, sound, tables, graphs, simulations or models may help provide the link for students between that which is immediately linguistically accessible and that which is cognitively accessible.” (N.Davis 2004) With access to school Ipads, pupils are able to not only develop their ICT skills but also use the technology to support their language development. School Ipads are equipped with a range of educational apps like Microsoft Translator, Book Creator, Clips , Languagenut, etc that are brilliant for learning English.

Explore the apps with your young EAL people and see how these apps can be used in your context to support their English language development.