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.
Fazana Farook is Senior Lecturer in Education at University of Hertfordshire where she runs the secondary English PGCE programme. Prior to this, she worked in a range of schools in London and Hertfordshire as a secondary English teacher, EAL Coordinator, Teaching and Learning specialist and Lead Practitioner in Whole School Literacy, English, KS2-3 transition and Initial Teacher Training. Fazana’s research interests focus on multilingualism and English education, and she is currently researching how the language identities of multilingual beginner teachers influence their perceptions and practice when working with EAL children during their teacher training programme.