Lexis Education
In this presentation, Helen Hanford, as a representative of Lexis Education, will explore ways of speeding up your EAL students’ learning of English and learning in English through a focus on how language works to make meaning.
In this presentation, Helen Hanford, as a representative of Lexis Education will explore ways of speeding up your EAL students’ learning of English and learning in English through a focus on how language works to make meaning. She will explain how TEMC will develop the teachers' capacity to explicitly teach about the texts the students are expected to produce, so that their EAL students are able to enjoy literacy success.
Isabel Xu
Director of Bilingual Education, AISL Harrow Schools
Isabel Xu is the Director of Bilingual Education at AISL. Having worked in education for over two decades, she has experience working in Chinese and UK public schools, international schools, and bilingual private schools. She has worked as a Secondary teacher, Group Leader, Head of School, and Consultant leading various school development projects. Isabel is an IB examiner and a CIS accreditation evaluator.
Helen Handford
Consultant, Lexis Education
Helen is a UK-based EAL teacher, trainer, and consultant with over 25 years of experience in developing language and literacy across the curriculum in diverse, multilingual primary and secondary school contexts. She specialises in improving outcomes for all pupils through strategic, whole-school approaches to the development of academic registers of language. A key focus of Helen’s work is the development of teacher expertise, in terms of both knowledges about language and pedagogy that teaches language explicitly across all curriculum areas. Alongside her work in schools, Helen has worked with local authority advisory teams, taught on university-based initial teacher training programmes, and is involved in both national and international research into literacy in education. Helen joined the Lexis team in 2018 as an international tutor trainer for How Language Works (HLW); Teaching ESL Students in Mainstream Classrooms: Language in Learning Across the Curriculum (TESMC: LiLaC); Literacy for Learning (LfL); and Teaching Young Children in English in Multilingual Contexts (TYCEMC).