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Results of the VOCABUILD online survey. What age are the children we treat/teach?. 9%. 27%. 30%. 34%. I feel confident differentiating between bilingual learners who have difficulty due to EAL/Learning difficulties/ Speech and Language difficulties. 9%. 27%. 30%. 34%.
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What age are the children we treat/teach? 9% 27% 30% 34%
I feel confident differentiatingbetween bilingual learners who have difficulty due to EAL/Learning difficulties/ Speech and Language difficulties 9% 27% 30% 34%
I have access to bilingual tools and resources 9% 27% 30% 34%
I have access to interpreters 9% 27% 30% 34%
I have access to Specialist Education Services e.g.: EMAS 9% 27% 30% 34%
58.4% of survey respondents specifically teach vocabulary to bilingual learners ‘I start with vocabulary needed in school, i.e. parts of body, clothes, weather, numbers, colours etc. and then move on to topics covered in class and grammar to support independent writing’ ‘I teach the key vocabulary for the topic/lesson but also pre-teach conceptual and underlying vocabulary that they may be missing’ ‘I would use Race to English programme with new to English pupils’ ‘Parent Child Interaction, Language groups with ‘colourful semantics’ ‘Key vocabulary is AGENTS (people), VERBS (as they facilitate argument structure and add to the semantic and thematic learning) and everyday nouns’ ‘Based on language steps from Tiscali site link on EMAS website’ ‘Using the Language in Communication Scales and lists from the EMAT’ ‘From oracy guidance/ emas advice/ topics done in school’ ‘Look for gaps (e.g. home words vs. school/nursery words); discuss with parent or teacher what their priorities are; use my clinical judgement about early developmental vocabulary/concepts’ (though this is clearly based on English language development) ‘Preschool = Living Language Starter Programme, beginning with the interests of the child. School age = Core curriculum vocabulary (e.g., 'all about me') and narrative resource’ ‘I use the First Words Starter Programme which is a developmental checklist of vocabulary’ ‘Read, Write Inc. New Arrivals programme’ ‘I follow Derbyshire Language Scheme nouns, verbs, adjectives’
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