EAL - Teaching and Learning Strategy: 2

We encourage students who speak English as an additional language to always have their bilingual dictionaries on their desks at the beginning of every lesson. It is very important that students who speak EAL use every tool at their disposal to assist with comprehensible input and output. Language and language learning are about vocabulary, about words. For students who are new to the English language and therefore have problems with comprehension, looking up a word in the dictionary is often the best place to start. It can help them to understand you and it can help you to understand them.