20 teaching ideas for EAL

Twenty ideas to help you support students for whom English is an additional language, in any subject area. The varied approaches encourage an inclusive classroom where your students can feel more involved and less alienated because of the language barrier.

Ideas include: making use of picture prompts, suggesting sentence starts, pre-learning preparation tasks, providing handouts, translating key words, rehearsal opportunities, buddying up your students, vocabulary consolidation activities and speaking and listening tasks.