Over 100 participants came to our Summer Conference at St Mary’s University. The Keynote speech, by Professor Constant Leung of King’s College London, gave a thought-provoking and thorough overview of assessment in relation to EAL learners over the past 30 years. He highlighted key issues that need to be considered and drew on Australian, European and American models to provide a useful framework to guide our thinking as we seek to  develop an assessment system that would promote the effective teaching and learning of EAL learners. The workshops were described as “enjoyable and full of useful, practical ideas” It was
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Our International work continues this year as Andy Harvey jets off to Kings College in Alicante at the end of August. His course follows on from the successful training sessions led by Manny Vazquez last year – on ‘Language and Literacy for Advanced EAL Learners’. This year Andy is focusing the training programme, for 40 staff, on ‘Developing Academic Language and Literacy’. We know he will manage to pack in some culinary ‘workshops’! If this subject interests you, we are arranging a similar course –  ‘Developing Grammatical Accuracy’  here at Lampton   on  1st December  2015. Visit our new website for
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