Department for Education funding for English lessons has dropped by equivalent of £117m despite rising demand, exclusive data reveals

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In this blog, trainer and subject expert, Tom Beakes, takes a look at how translanguaging leverages students’ home languages, dialects, and English to enhance learning in multilingual classrooms.

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Diana Sutton from The Bell Foundation outlines some key insights from new research on pupils with English as an additional language

Advice from The Bell Foundation to help schools evaluate provision for students using English as an additional language

The latest research from the University of Oxford is a 10-year follow up to the first piece of research looking into the educational achievement of EAL pupils in England. It provides new evidence about how an EAL learners’ time of arrival at school can impact their achievement – and why assessing proficiency in English is essential for schools to understand and unlock their potential. In this video, teachers tell about the implications of the research for their work.

The inclusion of English as an additional language in the new inspection toolkit means schools need to look again at this area of provision, writes Katherine Solomon

In this blog, we consider the key issues that policy makers need to consider to ensure that efforts to improve oracy in schools do not overlook the needs of EAL learners.

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Interactive story showing how English for Speakers of Other Languages (ESOL) transforms lives and why wider access and policy support are vital.

In England and Wales, 5.1 million people speak English as a Second or Additional Language (ESL). For many, English for Speakers of Other Languages (ESOL) classes have been the key to a new language an...

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