Eal Case Study

Assignment Case Study: EAL in School X
EDPM01
Development of learning: a case study

Faculty of Education and Society
University of Sunderland
2013/14

Maher Hamid
Student ID: bg52lj
Date: 02 01 2014
Total Word Count (Case Study): 3987
Contents
1. Introduction 3
2. Background 5
3. Literary Review 6
4. Methodology 9 4.1. Primary Research 9 4.2. Secondary Research 11 4.3. Limitations 11 4.4. Ethics 12
5. Data Collection 13 5.1. Questionnaire 13 5.2. Interviews 14 5.3. BPVS test data 14
6. Discussion 15
7. Conclusion 19
8. References 20
9. Bibliography 22
10. Appendix A: EAL Intervention Questionnaire 25
11. Appendix B: EAL Intervention Questionnaire Results 28

Introduction
Recent statistics compiled in 2012 in the UK suggested that children whose language is not English has doubled since 1997 to over a million children (NALDIC, 2012), while a government study in 2009 indicated that “15.2% of pupils in UK primary schools and 11.1% of pupils in UK secondary schools were learning English as an additional language (EAL) (Carroll et al, 2011). These figures show the growing demand and importance of EAL intervention in school curriculum, which is one of the key factors in choosing to research EAL intervention for the topic of this case study. Another factor is that EAL intervention has a much wider impact than just a mere subject taught within the curriculum as it impacts the L2 (Second Language i.e. English) pupil’s progress and achievement in other subjects which are taught in English too, further amplifying the difficulties pupils may experience in the curriculum as a whole. Furthermore, within a pupil’s social setting, the inability to fully engage and integrate with English speaking peers or the wider society, can lead to isolation, hence affecting the child’s self-esteem and confidence. What makes this study of intervention