Summer Conference in collaboration with The National Centre for Language and Literacy, Reading University
EAL and Additional Needs
9.00 – 10.15 Arrival and Registration
10.15 – 10.20 Welcome and introduction to the Conference (NALDIC/NCLL)
10.20 – 10.40 Opening Address - Dr Tony Cline
‘Diverging approaches to special educational needs in England and Scotland and their implications for children learning English as an additional language’
10.40 – 11.20 Presentations by 4 main speakers:
Dr Tony Cline: ‘EAL learners and dyslexia’
Anne Margaret Smith: ‘Co-occurring Specific Learning Differences’
Dr Sean Pert: ‘Developing a language therapy package to meet the needs of EAL learners’
Dr Theo Marinis: ‘The use of sentence repetition tasks to assess the language abilities of sequential bilingual children with specific language impairment’
11.20 – 11.40 Tea/coffee
11.40 – 11.55 An introduction to the National Centre for Language and Literacy
Professor Viv Edwards, Professor of Language in Education/Director of NCLL
11.55 -1.15 Parallel seminars by main speakers
1.15 – 2.30 Visit to NCLL, Lunch, Resource Exhibitions and Poster Presentations
Afternoon session
2.30 – 3.45 Parallel workshop sessions
Amy Thompson: ‘The place of mother-tongue assessment in identifying additional needs of EAL learners’
Carolyn Blackburn: ‘The Diverse communication needs of young children in the Foundation Stage: reflecting on policy to practice issues’
Peta Ullmann: Selective mutism and the bilingual learner
3.45 – 4.15 Feedback from seminars / workshops
4.15 Conference ends, tea / coffee / cold drinks