New partnership opportunity: collaborate with The Bell Foundation to support learners with EAL in your region
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EAL Partnerships Collaboration English Language
  • Mar 20, 2019
Commission questions whether English Language GCSE is fit for purpose
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GCSEs English Language
  • Mar 15, 2019
Heads question the point of English language GCSE
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  • Mar 15, 2019
'Forgotten third' of GCSE pupils found in all school types
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GCSEs English Language
  • Mar 14, 2019
Children with speech difficulties need 'urgent action'
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  • Mar 11, 2019
From meerkats to volcanoes - primary pupils' unexpectedly 'sophisticated' vocab
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  • Mar 7, 2019
The importance of using Scots language in the classroom
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  • Mar 7, 2019
New training courses launched to support teachers working with EAL learners
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  • Mar 7, 2019
Charities unite to call for action on children's SLCN
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  • Mar 7, 2019
An evidence based approach to improving oral language skills of disadvantaged pupils
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  • Mar 4, 2019
Britain's dwindling language skills are a disaster for the country and needs action, MPs warn
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  • Mar 3, 2019
Health visitors to be trained to spot communication problems earlier
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  • Mar 1, 2019
New training for health visitors to boost early language skills
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  • Feb 28, 2019
Speech, language and communication needs: a quick guide
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English is not enough – British children face major disadvantage when it comes to language skills
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The Nuffield Early Language Intervention has been awarded a 3+ evidence rating
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  • Feb 21, 2019
375 schools and nurseries in the north of England wanted to take part in new trials
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  • Feb 20, 2019
Closing the word gap in primary and secondary schools
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  • Feb 8, 2019
How do children learn to speak?
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Sector outraged at plans to train shop staff to support children's language
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Language Communication
  • Feb 7, 2019
Do EAL pupils need an extra year to learn English?
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EAL Attainment English Language
  • Feb 5, 2019
Impact of shared book reading on children’s language development
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  • Feb 5, 2019
Welsh Government backtracks on plans to make learning English compulsory in Welsh nurseries
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English Language Compulsory Nurseries Childcare
  • Feb 5, 2019
New Resources published to support deaf learners who use English as an Additional Language
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  • Feb 4, 2019
Outsourcing education to Clarks shoes: only a Tory could think of that | Alice O’Keeffe
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  • Jan 30, 2019
Shops and businesses to help children develop language skills
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  • Jan 30, 2019
Clarks shoe shop staff asked to help improve children's language
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Clarks shoe shop staff will train children to speak well
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Clarks workers are told to speak to ‘engage and chat’ with young customers
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Language Communication
  • Jan 29, 2019
Boost for national mission to improve early literacy and language
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  • Jan 29, 2019
Clarks shoe shop staff to be trained to speak to children amid Government drive to improve language skills
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Language
  • Jan 29, 2019
Anger as Welsh language nurseries told they will have to teach some English to children
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  • Jan 29, 2019
Scots is a language and not ‘slang’
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  • Jan 29, 2019
New EAL webinar series launched by The Bell Foundation
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EAL Attainment English Language
  • Jan 25, 2019
New guiding principles for practitioners working with EAL learners in the Early Years Foundation Stage
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Early years EAL Language
  • Jan 23, 2019
The subject of second language Welsh is being abolished in schools in Wales
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Wales Language Welsh Curriculum
  • Jan 18, 2019
Why we need to do more to support pre-Entry and Entry Level 1 ESOL
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  • Jan 9, 2019
Conversation beats word count in child language development
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  • Dec 31, 2018
Scotland: Teachers use iPads to talk to foreign pupils
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  • Dec 28, 2018
Children's early cognitive skills should be prioritised to close the gap
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Cognitive skills EIF Early intervention Language Attainment gaps
  • Dec 19, 2018
The why and how of English language proficiency assessment explained
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  • Dec 4, 2018
Parents' reading project aims to boost three-year-olds' language
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  • Nov 15, 2018
Parents' reading project aims to boost three-year-old's language
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  • Nov 15, 2018
Nadhim Zahawi sets out next steps for £20m early years fund
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Funding Early years Language Literacy Numeracy
  • Nov 15, 2018
Improving the home learning environment
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  • Nov 14, 2018
Poorer parents will receive texts reminding them to teach children new words
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  • Nov 14, 2018
Texts to prompt poorer parents to teach children words
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  • Nov 14, 2018
Multi-million investment to support children's early communication skills
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Scouts drafted in to improve poorer children’s speech
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  • Nov 14, 2018
More bedtime stories and no phones at the dinner table | Damian Hinds
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  • Nov 14, 2018
Can 20 minutes a day of story activities help parents boost their children’s language skills?
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  • Nov 13, 2018
EEF partners with SHINE to improve the home learning environment
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  • Nov 13, 2018
How should you talk to babies to best develop their language skills?
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Language
  • Nov 11, 2018
EAL parents 'can't engage with school life'
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  • Nov 1, 2018
Bercow Review: 'Grave concerns' over lack of progress on speech and language support
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  • Oct 25, 2018
New speech and language project seeks early years expertise
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  • Oct 24, 2018
DfE urged to reconsider decision to withdraw EAL proficiency measure
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EAL DfE Language English
  • Oct 17, 2018
Bilingualism: how to get your child to speak your language – and why it matters
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  • Oct 15, 2018
Gauging EAL pupils’ English ability ‘vital’
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EAL English Language Literacy
  • Oct 11, 2018
Research provides evidence on why the Department for Education should reintroduce the Proficiency in English Scale
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EAL English Language Literacy Curriculum
  • Oct 11, 2018
Second language programmes in international schools
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ESL English Language
  • Oct 10, 2018
Four 'As' for new arrivals with English as an additional language (EAL)
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English Language
  • Oct 8, 2018
Effects of shared book reading for young EAL children
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  • Oct 2, 2018
New research to tackle the digital divide
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Digital skills Teachers Technology Language
  • Sep 14, 2018
Scotland: Children aren’t little monkeys, they’re really just tiny apes
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  • Sep 12, 2018
The 24 North Yorkshire primary schools that will get ‘opportunity area’ speech and language support
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  • Aug 29, 2018
DfE £1.6m fund to improve early language and opportunities
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Damian Hinds DfE Language
  • Aug 29, 2018
Education Secretary's visit to promote English as global export
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Education Secretary's visit to promote English as global export
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English Language Literacy Colleges
  • Aug 28, 2018
UK launch of quality mark in English as medium of instruction
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English Language
  • Aug 20, 2018
Let the young answer back to improve language skills
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Young children who converse with adults have a better grasp of language says study
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  • Aug 13, 2018
Speech and Language awards launched
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  • Aug 3, 2018
Baby talk help infants learn English more than other words
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  • Aug 1, 2018
Struggle to find Arabic teacher on Bute
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  • Jul 30, 2018
Spain's Visiting Teachers Programme (SVTP)
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  • Jul 27, 2018
Paying parents to read to their children boosts literacy skills
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  • Jul 24, 2018
Parents more concerned about bad language and online trolls than grooming, poll finds
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Internet Parents Online safety Language Online grooming
  • Jul 20, 2018
Vocabulary: A number of words?
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  • Jul 17, 2018
Are Emoji a ‘universal language’? Today is World Emoji Day so let’s
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  • Jul 17, 2018
The key to social mobility lies in language
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Social mobility Language Vocabulary Education Select Committee
  • Jul 11, 2018
Cave rescue: ‘You never know when you’ll need English’
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English Language Thailand
  • Jul 11, 2018
Cardiff and Vale College joins forces with Santander to deliver Welsh language programme for its staff
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Wales Language Welsh Colleges
  • Jul 9, 2018
Scrapping EAL proficiency data collection is ‘retrograde step’
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EAL Data collection Language English
  • Jul 6, 2018
Ofqual mulls grading change for language and science A-levels
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Ofqual Grading Language Science A-levels
  • Jul 5, 2018
Ofqual mulls grading change for language and science A-levels
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Ofqual Grading Language Science A-levels
  • Jul 5, 2018
Children and Families Minister addresses ADCS conference
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Nadhim Zahawi Literacy Language Primary Secondary Funding
  • Jul 5, 2018
Education Secretary makes inaugural speech to children's services sector
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Education secretary Damian Hinds Literacy DfE Language Pupil premium Funding Attainment Primary Secondary Childcare
  • Jul 5, 2018
9:30 am: Westminster Hall debate on speech, language and communication support for children
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  • Jul 4, 2018
No more English language medium schools should open in Cardiff, says former council leader
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Language Wales Bilingual schools
  • Jul 2, 2018
Need to know: English proficiency checks
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English EAL Language
  • Jul 2, 2018
Multi-million pound fund to support disadvantaged children in the early years
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Funding Social mobility Language Speech Parents Disadvantaged
  • Jul 1, 2018
ETF publishes report on current practice in using a system of phonics with Post-16 learners
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Post-16 Adult education DfE Phonics Language Literacy
  • Jun 29, 2018
Divide growing between rich and poor for school language learning
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  • Jun 27, 2018
How misbehaviour can be a sign of language disorder
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  • Jun 27, 2018
Poor pupils risk missing out on language learning
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  • Jun 27, 2018
Language lesson gap means poorest miss out, says report
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  • Jun 27, 2018
Daily roundup 26 June: Early development, upskirting, and tablets
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Language Vocabulary Technology
  • Jun 26, 2018
Watch your sexist language, teachers told in Scotland
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Scotland Language Sexism
  • Jun 23, 2018
Scottish Government urged to look again at role of Confucius Institutes
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Chinese Language Culture Teachers
  • Jun 20, 2018
Cutting-edge digital innovations lead the pack at 2018 ELTons
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English Language Awards
  • Jun 19, 2018
Carnegie medal winner slams children’s book publishers for ‘accessible’ prose
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Books Literature Reading Language
  • Jun 18, 2018
EAL Assessment Framework for Schools wins a prestigious British Council ELTons Award 2018
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EAL Awards English Language
  • Jun 18, 2018
How French should French lessons be?
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French Language
  • Jun 14, 2018
Ensuring support for speech, language and communication needs is firmly embedded across the school
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Speech Language Communication SLCN
  • Jun 12, 2018
Call for a research partner: How does having English as an additional language affect experiences and outcomes for individuals involved in the criminal justice system?
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Research EAL English Language
  • Jun 7, 2018
Can you learn a language with an app? What the research says
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  • Jun 5, 2018
Ireland: International English language students up 8%
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Ireland International students English Language Student numbers
  • May 29, 2018
Effective speech, language and communication support for students
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  • May 29, 2018
Teaching students how to swear can help them to develop socially, scientist says
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  • May 28, 2018
New ESOL local partnerships project
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  • May 24, 2018
Ireland: Irish language school plan will frustrate parents
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  • May 23, 2018
Why teachers shouldn’t be afraid of other languages being spoken in the classroom
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  • May 21, 2018
Language development key factor in school success
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  • May 18, 2018
English UK celebrates 14% rise in ELT students in 2017
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  • May 17, 2018
Why using the term EAL can be 'reckless'
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  • May 16, 2018
Glasgow students to revive university’s historic Latin contest
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  • May 15, 2018
NUS report criticises Home Office over English language tests
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Student unions English Language Fraud Student visas International students
  • May 8, 2018
Becoming fluent in another language as an adult might be impossible – but I’m still going to try
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  • May 2, 2018
The benefits of a bilingual brain in the modern world
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  • May 2, 2018
Scotland: Roma children need translators to help spell out exploitation risk
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Language Exploitation Safeguarding
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Sajid Javid warned over students forced from UK after language tests
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International students Student visas Cheating English Language
  • May 1, 2018
Learn a language by ten or it may be too late
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  • May 1, 2018
Cognitive scientists define critical period for learning language
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  • May 1, 2018
Critical window for learning a language
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Parents to receive advice on teaching nursery rhymes in bid to close disadvantaged children's word gap
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  • Apr 30, 2018
Early years social mobility peer review programme
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  • Apr 30, 2018
Council efforts to boost young children's literacy to be peer reviewed
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  • Apr 30, 2018
£5m fund to support early years home learning
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  • Apr 30, 2018
DfE launches schemes to support early language development
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  • Apr 30, 2018
Multi-million fund to boost children's early language skills
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  • Apr 30, 2018
I used to hide at the back of the classroom, Children's Minister says
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Nadhim Zahawi Child refugees Language Attainment
  • Apr 30, 2018
The pupils who can't talk properly
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  • Apr 30, 2018
£13.5 million schemes to help close disadvantaged children’s ‘word gap’
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  • Apr 30, 2018
New Gaelic dictionary wins £2.5m investment from public purse
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  • Apr 24, 2018
Scotland: English-speaking students ‘treated as second class’ after Gaelic school opens in Skye
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  • Apr 20, 2018
Daily roundup 19 April: Exploitation, breastfeeding, and vocabulary
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  • Apr 19, 2018
Limited vocabulary impact on educational outcomes
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  • Apr 19, 2018
Language lessons bridge the generations
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  • Apr 19, 2018
Children’s grades at risk because they have narrow vocabulary, finds report
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Vocabulary Literacy Attainment Pupil performance Language English
  • Apr 19, 2018
French university launches two-acre Language Centre
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France Language Campus
  • Apr 19, 2018
More children are struggling with vocabulary, teachers say
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Vocabulary Literacy Attainment Language English Primary Secondary
  • Apr 19, 2018
Teachers in UK report growing 'vocabulary deficiency'
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  • Apr 19, 2018
Narrow vocabulary 'hits pupils' grades'
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Academic achievement Vocabulary Literacy Language English Secondary Primary
  • Apr 19, 2018
Learning Mandarin will give children ‘significant’ career boost
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  • Apr 18, 2018
Encouraging reading
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  • Apr 18, 2018
Emoji 'ruining people's grasp of English' because young rely on them to communicate
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  • Apr 17, 2018
The taste of Mandarin is sweeter when the teaching methods are informed by research
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  • Apr 17, 2018
Speaking Mandarin will give school leavers career advantage, say 77 per cent of business leaders
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  • Apr 11, 2018
Speaking Mandarin will give school leavers career advantage, say 77 per cent of business leaders
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  • Apr 11, 2018
Italy: University of Palermo launches app for migrants
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  • Apr 9, 2018
Should there be statutory guidance on acceptable accents for teachers? One leading linguist thinks so
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  • Apr 5, 2018
Awards celebrate children's speech and language
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Awards Speech Language Nurseries Childcare
  • Mar 27, 2018
ESOL is chronically underfunded – this must change
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  • Mar 26, 2018
The state secondary school where the only language taught is Mandarin
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Secondary State schools Language Mandarin Scotland
  • Mar 22, 2018
'Little progress' on speech and language support in past decade
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  • Mar 20, 2018
Bercow: 10 years on parents face 'postcode lottery' of support
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Special needs Speech Language
  • Mar 20, 2018
Immigrant pupils 'perform better in UK than most other developed countries'
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Pupil performance EAL English Language PISA OECD Research
  • Mar 19, 2018
How Progress 8 might just be a proxy measure for poverty and EAL
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Progress 8 Poverty EAL English Language
  • Mar 18, 2018
Sajid Javid reveals 770,000 migrants don’t speak English as he pledges £50million to boost learning
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Refugees Child refugees English Language Funding ESOL Integration
  • Mar 15, 2018
Evaluation of Community Based English Language (CBEL) provision pilots
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English Language CBEL Integration
  • Mar 14, 2018
Government’s Integrated Communities Strategy green paper – Our response
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English Language ESOL Integration
  • Mar 14, 2018
Integrated Communities Strategy green paper
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Integration English Language ESOL
  • Mar 14, 2018
Nine things schools need to know about the government’s integration green paper
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Integration English ESOL Language School admissions Regulation
  • Mar 14, 2018
Lack of investment in ESoL will hinder integration strategy, AoC warns
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  • Mar 14, 2018
Government preparing new ESOL strategy
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  • Mar 14, 2018
Minister says 777,000 people settled in UK ‘do not speak English’
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Integration English Language ESOL Funding
  • Mar 14, 2018
UK's ex-integration tsar says £50m pledge not enough to 'heal nation'
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  • Mar 14, 2018
Poland ready for internnational children – minister
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  • Mar 13, 2018
Sweden's Finns fear minority language rights are under threat
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  • Mar 13, 2018
Sixth-formers learn Hinglish to do business in India
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  • Mar 7, 2018
Language is the golden route to educational success
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Language Literacy Pedagogy
  • Mar 7, 2018
Shakespeare can boost children’s confidence
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  • Mar 7, 2018
South Korea bans English up to third grade
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South Korea English Primary Language
  • Mar 6, 2018
Best Evidence in Brief: Issue #157 - 6 March 2018
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Research Reading Primary Secondary Conversation Literacy Language Social skills Mental health Behaviour
  • Mar 6, 2018
Refugees are being offered free Welsh lessons to help them feel at home
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  • Mar 6, 2018
World Book Day: Every teacher is an English teacher
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Teachers Teaching Language English Books Literacy
  • Mar 5, 2018
New unionlearn leaflet encourages ESOL support at work
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ESOL Language English Skills
  • Feb 22, 2018
EAL Nexus website relaunched
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EAL Language English Resources Teaching
  • Feb 21, 2018
Bringing success stories into learner experiences - on motivating and engaging Mandarin Chinese learners
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Mandarin Chinese Language Teaching
  • Feb 20, 2018
Brexit: European universities increase English-speaking courses to prepare for influx of students, study suggests
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Brexit Student numbers Student recruitment English Language
  • Feb 19, 2018
Research round-up 16 February 2018
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Mental health Student support Wellbeing Teacher training Funding Leaders Data Language EAL Literacy Disadvantaged pupils
  • Feb 16, 2018
Pug helps teach children Chinese
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  • Feb 16, 2018
China beckons for winners of national Mandarin speaking competition
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  • Feb 15, 2018
There must be easier fads to follow than teaching Mandarin | Emma Brockes
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Language Literacy Numeracy Mandarin
  • Feb 15, 2018
Why Erasmus is important for students
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Erasmus Students Exchange programmes Attainment Employability Language
  • Feb 14, 2018
Back-and-forth exchanges boost children’s brain response to language
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  • Feb 14, 2018
Italian ruling on English-taught courses “out of touch with reality”
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Italy English Language Degrees
  • Feb 8, 2018
£100m to deliver 21st Century Schools
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  • Feb 8, 2018
Comment on education outcomes of children with English as an Additional Language
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EAL Language English Attainment National funding formula
  • Feb 7, 2018
Daily roundup 7 February: Language, mental health, and young carers
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Language English EAL Mental health Scotland Wales GCSEs Pupil performance Secondary Primary
  • Feb 7, 2018
School pupils in bid to be crowned country’s best Mandarin speakers
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  • Feb 7, 2018
How can we better support EAL pupils?
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  • Feb 7, 2018
Educational outcomes of children with English as an additional language
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EAL English Language Pupil outcomes Attainment
  • Feb 7, 2018
Children who arrive late into English school system penalised with low GCSE grades, report finds
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GCSEs EAL English Language Attainment
  • Feb 7, 2018
Performance data on EAL pupils is ‘profoundly misleading’, warns EPI
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  • Feb 7, 2018
Figures showing EAL pupils outperforming native speakers 'profoundly misleading'
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EAL Performance English Language Attainment EPI
  • Feb 7, 2018
Stop swearing and taking drugs, head tells parents
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Parents Behaviour Drug use Language
  • Feb 5, 2018
The Tes podcast: School funding, teacher recruitment and developmental language disorder
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  • Feb 2, 2018
Research into adult phonics launched as part of Functional Skills Reform
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Functional Skills Phonics English Language Adult learners
  • Jan 31, 2018
UK PM announces new China education deal
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China Teacher exchange English Language Maths Teacher training
  • Jan 31, 2018
PM to set out ambitious new approach to UK-China education
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  • Jan 31, 2018
Alarm over 'dramatic' funding cut for speech and language charity
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Funding Speech Language Charity Communication
  • Jan 30, 2018
Weekly digest #94: Resources for language learners
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Language English Resources
  • Jan 30, 2018
EAL pupils outperform native English speakers at GCSE
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Pupil performance Language Attainment English GCSEs EAL
  • Jan 26, 2018
Migrants who speak English as a second language get better GCSE grades than British kids
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North-south divide Migrants English Language GCSEs Performance Secondary Standards Grading
  • Jan 26, 2018
The Communication Trust faces uncertain future
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  • Jan 25, 2018
Take Time to Talk, Listen and Play
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Wales Funding Language Communication Literacy
  • Jan 18, 2018
Best Evidence in Brief: the latest education research news from the Institute of Effective Education
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Teachers' pay Pupil outcomes Maths Technology Primary Primary schools School improvement Language Reading
  • Jan 9, 2018
Lucy Kellaway: how I learnt to love guff
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  • Jan 4, 2018
Home Office blocks Canadian from teaching Gaelic in Hebridean primary school
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Scotland Canada Gaelic Language Teachers Primary schools Visas
  • Dec 22, 2017
UK pupils celebrate Mandarin learning
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  • Dec 20, 2017
Welsh in Education: Action Plan 2017-21/ Y Gymraeg mewn addysg: Cynllun gweithredu 2017-21
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Wales Welsh Language
  • Dec 18, 2017
Plan to put education at heart of ambition to achieve a million Welsh speakers by 2050
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  • Dec 18, 2017
Minister recalls how stones were thrown at her Welsh medium school bus in Cardiff
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Wales Welsh-medium Language
  • Dec 18, 2017
£500,000 for Welsh Language Education Resources
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  • Dec 15, 2017
Pearson launches virtual A-levels to battle teacher shortage
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  • Dec 11, 2017
Pupils from across the country celebrate Mandarin success
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Europe’s ambition to double Erasmus+, boost language skills
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Leading MATs have far more pupils with English as additional language
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University explores benefits of speaking Gaelic in business
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Children are less ready for school than five years ago, say school leaders
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Scotland: Gaelic school planned for Edinburgh as demand soars
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London attempts language lesson world record
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DfE doubles funding for German language exchange programme
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Early years childcare 'beneficial for language and behaviour'
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