Recommendation of online TEFL, CELTA or TESOL courses

[J osborn6]

Good afternoon,

I am pretty sure that I am getting the go-ahead to do an EAL teaching course.

Does anyone have any recommendations please?  I just don't know where to start researching.  I need to provide school with facts and figures initially.

Thanks for your help.

Regards

Jennifer

Mrs Jennifer Osborn

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[Gordon Ward]

Hi Robene

Although somewhat loose at times, Racing to English is based on a structured learning programme. I attach the records of progress that I developed recently that will show you the outline I was working to when I developed the programme

Best wishes

Gordon

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Hello Jennifer,

Please let us know a little more about the demography – what languages, what age groups. Level of EAL. And how mobile is the audience. Different communities have different accents and nearly all are not able to pronounce due to different embouchure (the way the mouth is trained to make sounds)

 

Also there are different learning styles. The work of Gordon Wards Racing to English is an action orientated approach, and Stuart Scott’s Collaborative Learning is a conversational approach. Both are tool boxes without a ‘structured learning programme’. Mantra Lingua approaches learning via stories and home language equivalence. This too is not a structured programme.

 

Just some ideas to consider. Children from Bangladesh will learn very differently from children from Ukraine, etc. Indeed, even within a language group some children like structure reading with a focus on reading, others by exploring, a few by imagining and experimenting, etc. (learning styles)

 

Anyway these are just some ideas for what they are worth.

 

Good luck

Robene

 

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Good afternoon,

 

I am pretty sure that I am getting the go-ahead to do an EAL teaching course.

 

Does anyone have any recommendations please? I just don't know where to start researching. I need to provide school with facts and figures initially.

 

Thanks for your help.

Regards

Jennifer

 

Mrs Jennifer Osborn

 

EAL Coordinator

 

Teacher of EAL, Maths & Learning about Life

Tutor to 11EU2 / Apple Teacher

 

Currently reading:

 

[You Be Mother by Meg Mason | Waterstones]

 

Currently learning: Ukrainian, Romanian & Latin

 

[Duolingo - The world's best way to learn a language]

 

 

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[Robene Dutta]

My apologies Gordon,

Would love to know more about the structured learning programme using your resources. Sounds very exciting!

 

Robene

[Stuart Scott]

Collaborative learning activities help to scaffold conversations by informally introducing the syntax and vocabulary needed in specific subject areas.  However, although they appear random,  they are carefully and cunningly planned.  We work backwards. We start with a notion of the kinds of ideas that we want children to discuss and then devise playful ways in which those ideas can be visited and revisited so appropriate language forms are practiced enmeshed with subject related vocabulary. If you want to be involved in the planning take a look at our work in progress pages which are currently replacing our development workshops.

http://www.collaborativelearning.org/workinprogress.html

Why not help us with our metalinguistic activity on verbs of motion which is currently being revised because we missed a verb that the SATs writers included in the tests to the confusion of many. 

http://www.collaborativelearning.org/monstermotion.pdf

Best wishes,

Stuart

 

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[Diane Leedham]

Hi everyone 

There are also a number of accredited online EAL teaching courses via providers like EAL Academy. 

BELL and others too - not sure if these are ongoing accredited courses or certificated one off sessions? 

But NALDIC did a full EAL Journal edition about CPD quite recently - I’m sure Nandhaka or one of the team can signpost the edition/date. Most of the links will probably still be relevant. 

I’m not sure why you would want to do TEFL/CELTA/ESOL if your context is teaching EAL students in school. There’s obviously some overlap with strategies and cross referencing across specialisms can be very generative - but EAL is its own disciplinary specialism and it’s important to be attentive to its distinctiveness. 

English is not being learned as a ‘foreign’ language in school - the mainstream curriculum is being learned simultaneously. And ESOL is primarily aimed at adults with adult social/emotional/linguistic experiences and repertoires and adult contexts for learning language. 

Good luck! 

Splendid news that your school is investing in you via some funding 😄

Di Leedham 

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[Rehana Ahmed]

Dear Jennifer

If you are interested in an EAL certificate course,  we at Hounslow Language Service offer this.

I have attached our summer programme and a booking form. Please get in touch if you would like any more information.

Regards

Rehana

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[Graham Smith]

Well said, Di.

 

Best wishes,

Graham

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[Diane Leedham]

Thanks for the updates everyone. 

And sorry Rehana - I didn’t realise you did extended accredited EAL teaching courses at HLS as well as all your other super courses. I’m out of touch! 

Looks super. 

Di L 

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Well said, Di.

 

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[helen_s_drummond]

Hello Jennifer - see EAL and Supporting Bilingual Learners' course (may or may not be available online):

https://www.strath.ac.uk/humanities/schoolofeducation/career-longprofessionallearning/clpl2022-23/

Good luck 

Helen 

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[Robene Dutta]

Thank you, Stuart,

 

Of course, I love your resources and the way they extend stories and concepts. I think I will leave it to the academics to discuss what ‘structured is’ but we often get asked if there is something like Rosetta Stone type on progressive learning (although I must say, I find them rather boring! There have been countless times when I started with good intentions only to leave within days….

 

Brexit has closed our source of Kamishibai Stages, so we have just made our own version of the desktop stage for wordless story telling props:

    

 

 

An alternative to big books. All our books, unlike The very Hungry Caterpillar, etc, have the back of each picture card sound enable for PENpal.

Anyway, we will be announcing a launch of our stage very shortly next week. And Stuart, the stage accepts any A3 card so people can make up their own stories. I remember Erica saying how much fun the class had when teachers mixed up the order of sequence and they started to create their own version of a story.

 

Best wishes

Robene