Understanding & Teaching EAL Pupils
The session is co-hosted by the Chartered College of Teaching and is delivered as part of NALDIC’s ITE Conference Week. This session will focus on the distinctiveness of EAL learners: who are EAL learners; how are EAL learners framed in educational policy; what are EAL children’s learning strengths and needs? The session will then move onto the distinctiveness of EAL pedagogy and explore how classroom teachers can combine these pedagogical approaches with their subject knowledge to effectively support the needs of individual EAL learners in their classrooms.
Dr Christina Richardson is NALDIC Vice Chair and the Editor-in-Chief of NALDIC’s professional journal -the EAL Journal. With a background in language teaching, Christina has worked as a teacher educator for many years at King’s College London. She is Senior Lecturer in Language Education, teaching on the PGCE for Modern Languages, the BA in English Language and Linguistics, language teaching related Masters courses and supervising language related Phds. Christina’s research interests include policy and practice in relation to learners with English as an Additional Language and to those with Special educational Needs and Disabilities. Teacher identity, Anti-racism in Initial Teacher Education and Decolonising the Language curriculum. Her recent co-authored publications include a chapter in the 6th edition of the edited volume, Becoming a Teacher: Issues in Secondary education, entitled: English as an Additional Language: Challenges of ethnicity, language and subject identity in the contemporary classroom and a chapter in the BERA Guide to Decolonising the Curriculum. Christina leads an Anti-racism in initial teacher education working group for the PGCE at King’s.
Christina is co-author to the following publications:
Leung, C., & Richardson, C. (2023). English as an Additional Language: Challenges of ethnicity, language and subject identity in the contemporary classroom. Becoming a Teacher: Issues in Secondary Education 6e, 260.
Richardson, C., Jones, J., & Linaker, T. (2024). Decolonising Language Teaching: More Than a Box-ticking Exercise. In The BERA Guide to Decolonising the Curriculum: Equity and Inclusion in Educational Research and Practice (pp. 131-139). Emerald Publishing Limited.
