ESCI - EAL Support Through Assessment, Co-Teaching and Academic Language Development (Webinar 3)

Webinar 3 - EAL and Academic Language

Webinar three participants will be enabled to:

• Reflect on current academic language knowledge and practices
• Define academic language
• Justify the need for academic language support for children with EAL
• Acquire a bank of strategies and activites to support the academic language development skills of children with EAL

Facilitator - Aoife Merris Gallagher

Aoife is a primary school teacher with experience in both mainstream and support positions since 2013. Her recent doctoral research designed, developed and delivered an English-Irish oral narrative programme for nine linguistically diverse infant classrooms (Tell-a-Tale | Inis Scéal).  Aoife frequently facilitates webinars through Education Support Centres, authoring a summer course in support of children with EAL in recent years.