EALHead of Department:
Ms Naomi McAllister
'ENGLISH AS A FOREIGN LANGUAGE' AT HAILEYBURY ALMATY
The English Language Support Programme aims to assist pupils for whom English is a second language or additional language. It aims to help pupils achieve their potential in educational, social and cultural contexts at Haileybury Almaty and to enhance their effective and competent use of English across the curriculum.
The EAL programme aims to provide language skills practice and give students more knowledge of the English language and culture and confidence in their own ability.
Identification
- The spoken language may range from very poor to near native speaking fluency where pupils’ language may lack clear expression and confidence, diction, grammatical accuracy or proper organisation of thoughts.
- Listening comprehension may be frustrating because of the subtleties of the English language and lack of cultural background.
- For some pupils the pace, stress, tone and sound patterns of speech are too fast and unrecognisable because of language accent and colloquialisms.
- The EAL pupil often needs assistance with reading comprehension at the level of their academic year because the demands of vocabulary and cultural knowledge are slightly more advanced than those with which they are capable of coping.
- Pupils are often confused by the technical language of some specialist subjects.
- Where fluency in writing is poor the way in which grammar and punctuation are misused may indicate low language proficiency.
- Assist teachers in identifying pupils with EAL difficulties and provide them with suitable support.
- Liaise with class/subject teachers and assist EAL learners with their academic English through either in-class support or withdrawal from class.
- Assist students to set attainable language targets. Build up a bank of resource material.
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