In the 2nd EAL Bites | Speedy Tip of this series, I’m going to briefly talk about Making Input Comprehensible with Paralinguistic Features: what they are, whether they’re universal, and whether you should use them when you’re speaking to EAL learners.

In this EAL Bites | Speedy Tip of this series, I’m going to briefly start talking about grading your language: what it is, why it’s important, and a couple of things to think about when you’re speaking to EAL learners.

In this post, I am going to briefly round up the talks I attended during IP&SEN SIG Pre-Conference Event, which considered ELT or EAL when teaching learners who have SEN. I'll give a more personal depiction of the day in Pt.3.

Sessions in this post:

• Storytelling | Andrew Wright
• Self-Esteem | Rachael Harris
• The Language of Inclusive Education | Anne Margaret Smith
• Assessment for Learning | Phil Dexter

Just over a week ago, I arrived in Glasgow for my second 5-day IATEFL Conference...IATEFL, the International Association for Teachers of English as a Foreign Language, is one of the big international organisations which bring together ELT (English Language Teaching) related professionals from a variety of global contexts...Getting to Glasgow should have been a pretty simple and uneventful affair, and it certainly was in comparison to many colleagues' international journeys...