EAL - Teaching and Learning Strategy: 1

We encourage all teaching staff to differentiate their Power Points in the same ways; more specifically by highlighting instructions in blue and key words/complex vocabulary in green. These words can be translated in advance for students who are beginners in English and given to them at the beginning of the lesson in order to help with comprehension. The vocabulary could also be provided with pictures in order to help students who require some visual input. Alternatively, teachers could provide students with the key words in English those who are able to use their bilingual dictionaries to translate them by themselves. It is also useful to provide students with sentence starters and prompts because one common problem among EAL students is knowing how to begin formulating their written answers.