An exciting new Project is taking place at Lampton School this term. Secondary age pupils, who are New Arrivals and are waiting for  a school place, are being given the opportunity to join a 12 week course aimed at improving their English in order to either join the Hounslow ESOL course or gain a place in school later in the year. HLS were commissioned by Hounslow Council to write the course materials which included 7 schemes of work for a range of subject areas and  provide 2 days training for the Tutors. The course will be monitored and overseen by HLS
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At this Conference, which focused on Language Acquisition and Literacy, Manny Vazquez, from Hounslow Language Service , led a Science workshop. This aimed to share some useful strategies to develop communication skills of EAL learners through the Science curriculum. The session finished with participants doing practical activities which involved physics and a ‘coat hanger’ ! A fun time had by all. The keynote speaker and a fellow workshop presenter was Professor Stephen Krashen, whose work on Language Acquisition, Comprehensible Input and Reading is core study for EAL academics.
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We wish everyone a very Happy New Year from  all at Hounslow Language Service.
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Manny Vazquez and Andy Harvey have just  returned from Doha where they were  delivering  training   at the Al Maha Academy for Boys. Participants came  from the Ta’lluum Group of schools which also includes Al Maha Girls and the Al Jazeera Academy. The 80 Participants included year leaders in Primary and subject leaders in Secondary. The theme of the programme was  developing academic language and literacy for EAL students. The aim is to build capacity among senior staff members, who will then cascade the training in their own areas. If you are interested in this training for your school please
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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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