We post here short research items to inspire and inform. Ten minute (ish) reads with links into longer reads.

MOST RECENT ADDITIONS 30th June 2023

Education North West (US) have sent us the link to their video on how teachers can help English learners build their language skills while they learn complex content? There is a strong similarity to our 1989 partnership videos posted below and the message has not changed after thirty five years!

Two papers just added to my reading list

Jim Cummins: Beyond language: Academic communication and
student success

Jason Moore: Using a functional linguistics metalanguage to support academic language development in the English
Language Arts

Two from Stephen Krashen

 

The Case for Non-Targeted, Comprehensible Input

The Importance of keeping research papers short

INTRODUCTION TO PARTNERSHIP TEACHING

Funded by UK Department of Education with the support of the UK National Foundation for Education Research. Developed in the eighties, published by HMSO in 1989 and disseminated throughout the UK and Northern Ireland.

We have published the accompanying videos on Vimeo and the links are below:

Introduction

https://vimeo.com/36362736

partnership2 

https://vimeo.com/50139337 

partnership3

https://vimeo.com/50139338

Salmon Science lesson from Soar Valley Leicester

https://vimeo.com/38904518 

COOPERATION IN THE MULTIETHNIC CLASSROOM

Extract from Helen Cowie et al pub David Fulton 1994

This extract begins by suggesting that group work in the classroom is an established part of current practice..

CURRENT THEN BUT NOT CURRENT NOW!

Earlier postings

ADAM LEFSTEIN AND JULIA SNELL CLASSROOM DISCOURSE: THE PROMISE AND COMPLEXITY OF DIALOGIC PRACTICE SUE LYLE Dialogic Teaching: Discussing Theoretical
Contexts and Reviewing Evidence from
Classroom Practice
TEN KEY IDEAS EAL BEGINNERS IN MAINSTREAM CLASSROOMS