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• EAL adaptations: Lonely Planet Travel Writing

  By Pete on February 8, 2026 • ( 0 )

  

  I teach a mainstream Year 7 class. The overall level is very high, but sometimes I think the in-house content we have could do with more scaffolding at times. I mean, it’s awesome content – I’m just talking a few… Read More ›

• EAL adaptations: Floodland

  By Pete on February 5, 2026 • ( 0 )

  

  I teach a support group of EAL learners in Year 6. We study the same content as all other English classes and take the same assessment. It’s just that the content and lesson resource needs a bit of adapting to… Read More ›

• ‘We’re on a journey with Bell / WIDA’

  By Pete on February 2, 2026 • ( 2 )

  

  I hear this a lot during my interviews for EAL teaching/leadership roles. It’s in response to my question about which EAL assessment tool(s) the school use and *the extent to which they are embedded*.  I love the honest responses from… Read More ›

• Interview task: Optimising the development of SLA in an international school

  By Pete on January 17, 2026 • ( 1 )

  

  I had a positive job hunting experience towards the end of this week. I put out the feelers for work at a good school on Wednesday, was offered an interview on Thursday, interviewed Friday morning, then rejected Friday afternoon.  Why… Read More ›

• Research in brief: Disciplinary literacy and verbal language in PE

  By Pete on January 4, 2026 • ( 0 )

  

  I haven’t come across many studies into disciplinary literacy development in PE, so this action research from Lindberg (2024) is fascinating.  Here’s a very brief summary – logging it here for my own reference more than anything! The action research… Read More ›

• Research in brief: Harnessing the translanguaging corriente

  By Pete on December 18, 2025 • ( 0 )

  

  Article: The translanguaging pedagogies continuum (Ossa Parra and Proctor, 2022) Link here Summary: Research into best practice for teaching multilingual learners (in the US and elsewhere) has focused on English-only instructional settings, and systemic monolingual contexts. This runs contrary to… Read More ›

• Another year in review

  By Pete on December 15, 2025 • ( 2 )

  

  An interesting one – lots of change! Leaving Malaysia My two-year contract at St. Joseph’s International School ended in July. During those two years, our EAL team achieved a lot. Establishing an EAL department in the high school, building multi-tiered… Read More ›

• EAL lessons: Robbie (Isaac Asimov)

  By Pete on November 14, 2025 • ( 2 )

  

  Here’s an example of the EAL content I’m putting together these days. Last year, I was teaching a group of A1-A2 level multilinguals (Year 8, aged 13) in a support group. We were looking to introduce them to authentic literature…. Read More ›

• Research in Brief: Input Enhancement and L2 Grammatical Development

  By Pete on October 29, 2025 • ( 0 )

  

  The research:  Leow, R. P. (2008). Input enhancement and L2 grammatical development: What the research reveals.  (Open access, see here) Type of research A meta-analysis of research into the effectiveness of different input enhancement techniques. The range of studies were… Read More ›

• Performativity in education

  By Pete on October 23, 2025 • ( 1 )

  

  I tend to post my short-thoughts on LinkedIn rather than on this blog. This one is an example from around 8 months ago – but I decided to post here too just for easy reference. I originally came across Ball’s… Read More ›

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