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SUMMARY:Language\, identity and attainment of EAL students  in schools in 
 the East of England  - Dr Michael Evans (Faculty of Education\, University
  of Cambridge)
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CONTACT:Theodora Alexopoulou
DESCRIPTION:The demographic profile of schools in the East of England is c
 hanging and becoming increasingly multilingual. Schools in the region are 
 learning to adapt to the diversity of the linguistic and cultural backgrou
 nds of their students in the context of a national policy of decentralised
  educational planning and in the absence of a research-informed scale of l
 anguage assessment. This paper will draw on evidence from a longitudinal s
 tudy\, funded by the Bell Foundation\, focusing on assessment of the educa
 tional attainment of a sample of 22 newly arrived migrant-background secon
 dary school students in two case study schools in England. It will outline
  key themes connecting language\, identity and social integration underlyi
 ng the pupils’ accounts of their experience. The talk will also consider
  evidence of features of spoken and written English as part of an investig
 ation of change elicited in two rounds of semi-structured interview and wr
 itten task completion separated by an interval of 12 months. 
LOCATION:GR06/07\, English Faculty Building\, 9 West Road\, Sidgwick Site
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