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SUMMARY:Language Development and School Achievement of EAL Students: EALea
 d Project II - EALead Project Team\, University of Cambridge and Anglia Ru
 skin University
DTSTART:20161121T170000Z
DTEND:20161121T183000Z
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CONTACT:Lucian Stephenson
DESCRIPTION:How do newly-arrived students with EAL progress in their Engli
 sh language proficiency\, academic achievement and social integration duri
 ng the months following arrival at secondary school? What are the key stra
 tegies used by teachers to support them and what are the implications for 
 professional knowledge and pedagogy? How can parents be further encouraged
  by schools to support their children’s educational progress?\nThis talk
  will present key findings from a recently completed research project\, co
 mpleted by researchers at Cambridge University and Anglia Ruskin Universit
 y and funded by the Bell Foundation\, which focuses on the experience of n
 ewly-arrived EAL students in secondary schools in the East of England. The
  study consists of a longitudinal analysis of the social\, linguistic and 
 educational experiences of EAL students at two case study schools as well 
 as of a survey EAL provision in secondary schools in the region.\n\n*Resea
 rch team *\n\n*Cambridge*: Michael Evans (co-director)\, Madeleine Arnot\,
  Linda Fisher\, Karen Forbes\, Yongcan Liu\n\n*Anglia Ruskin*: Claudia Sch
 neider (co-director)\, Mei Hu\n
LOCATION: Faculty of Education\, 184 Hills Road\, Cambridge\, CB2 8PQ\, Ro
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