Language in Learning Across the Curriculum (LILAC)
Supporting more advanced learners of
English as an additional language (EAL)
The LILAC course focuses on moving learners from conversational fluency to the
academic literacy required to access, and succeed within, the curriculum. It will provide
participants with a framework for supporting the language development and writing skills of
all their pupils, not only those developing English as an additional language.
The course will offer teachers working in Key Stages 2, 3 and 4:
 an increased awareness of the continuing needs of more advanced EAL learners
 the skills to analyse the language demands of the curriculum and the linguistic
needs of learners
 strategies for scaffolding language development through and across the curriculum
 the opportunity to implement and reflect on these strategies in their own practice
The course incorporates:
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group workshops

classroom-based activities

highly practical readings
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between module tasks
Applications from schools sending two or more participants are particularly welcomed, as
impact on provision and practice has been demonstrably greater where this has been the
case, and colleagues have been able to support each other in developing, implementing
and disseminating strategies from the course.
Cost per participant:
For maintained schools in LBHF:
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£100 per person for course materials and manual
For academies, free schools and non-LBHF schools:
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£350 (including £100 for course materials and manual)
Language in Learning Across the Curriculum
Course outline
All sessions will take place at the Lilla Huset PDC, 13.00 – 16.30
Date
Module
Focus
Bilingual students and learning in a second language
Thursday
1
09/01/14
Bilingual students: Who are they and what affects their learning?
Learning in and through an additional language
How can we support bilingual students?
Language and learning and the role of scaffolding
Thursday
2
23/01/14
Language, text and context
A functional model of language
Scaffolding and a teaching and learning cycle
Oral language: how the task shapes the talk
Thursday
3
06/02/14
Developing understandings of oral language across the mode continuum
Oral language tasks
Using oral language: interpreting and producing oral texts
Thursday
4
06/03/14
Oral language: ‘talk as performance’
Talk as performance: issues for bilingual students and classroom strategies
Assessment of oral language
Working with written and visual texts
Thursday
5
20/03/14
Different ways of making meaning
Exploring genre
Genres across the curriculum
Working with written and visual texts at the text level
Thursday
6
03/04/14
Looking at language at the text level
Supporting bilingual students with reading
Linking back to the Teaching and Learning Cycle
Developing knowledge of genre and language at the language level
Thursday
7
01/05/14
Assessing written texts
Thursday
8
15/05/14
Thursday
9
05/06/14
Moving along the register continuum
Focusing on the nominal group
Moving to highly written texts through nominalisation
Matching the register — Dictogloss
How accessible are the texts we use?
Assessment of written language
Programming and whole school models of support for language
development
Programming
Whole-school framework for supporting bilingual students
Applications should be made through the Lilla Huset website: www.lillahusetcpd.com
For further information, please contact margaret.brown@lbhf.gov.uk