AMBRIT English as an Additional Language (EAL)
POLICY
The primary aims of Ambrit's EAL programme
are:
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enable English Language Learners (ELL's), initially, to acquire
basic survival skills
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then Conversational Fluency (click here)
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with Academic Language Proficiency and full independent
participation in the mainstream English curriculum as the long
term objective.
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- EAL students, from Grades 1-6, are
identified and placed on the Rojas Academic Language Proficiency
Scale (link on website) through:
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administration of standardised tests and teacher-made
assessments
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consulting student portfolios and other samples of work, school
reports and records and teachers' anecdotal records and
observations
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conferencing with the students and their mainstream
teachers.
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- The principal standardized tests and
commercially published assessments which may be used are:
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IDEA PROFICIENCY TESTS, Ballard & Tighe
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Scholastic Reading Placement Test,
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Classroom Teacher's ESL Survival Kit #1, Pearson Education
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Basic Reading Inventory, Kendal Hunt
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Developmental Continuums, Christopher Gordon
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Classroom Based Assessment, Christopher Gordon
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- These test results, together with the
authentic assessments listed above, provide the information
required to place ELL's on the Academic Language Proficiency
Scale.
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- EAL teachers collaborate with mainstream
teachers to facilitate the integration of ELL students into the
mainstream classrooms. This partnership operates in the following
ways:
- EAL teachers
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participate in the mainstream classes to support ELL's on
curriculum activities.
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develop instructional activities and provide linguistically
appropriate materials to support ELL students in curriculum work
thereby enabling the students to go ahead with the curriculum and
learn English at the same time.
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work with mainstream teachers to produce assessment procedures
to monitor students' progress. All such documentation is
kept in the students' portfolios or EAL file and is available to
students, parents and teachers.
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certain cases work intensively with students outside the regular
classroom to support class work and to address individual language
needs.
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- EAL teachers are available to meet with
parents to discuss their child's progress in the acquisition of
their English language skills. On these occasions EAL teachers
will stress the importance of continuing to foster fluency,
literacy and cognition in the child's primary language.
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- Furthermore Ambrit EAL teachers are
committed in their practice and philosophy to the idea that second
language learners draw on their home language and culture:
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a resource in their learning,
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a celebration of their diversity,
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to develop their personal identity as full members of the learning
community.
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- EAL Department
- September 2008
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CHILD IN AMBRIT'S LANGUAGE PROGRAMME
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