Are you a primary school teacher adapting your lessons for learners who are in the beginning stages of learning English as an additional language?

Do you need some guidance on how to support newcomers to English in your school?

Communication Across Cultures has been created to support teachers of young learners who are beginning their journey of English language learning and cultural understanding and to bring professionals together to learn and share experiences with each other.

Our focus is on teacher training and resources to support beginners of English in any school where English is the language of instruction. This could be in monolingual or multilingual schools in the UK or internationally.

Communication Across Cultures develops multicultural and multilingual learning opportunities for young learners worldwide by offering innovative and inspiring teacher training and resources.

The book:
second edition

Learn about and prepare to teach other teachers in teaching 5-11 year old beginners of English as an additional language and receive advice, guidance, a survival language intervention and resources for your school.
This includes:

• Working with young language learners
• Helping new arrivals embrace their new cultural experience
• Assessing new arrivals
• Learning and teaching new arrivals
• Using a second language writing system
• Survival language intervention
• Language learning strategies
• Managing new arrivals in the classroom
• Resources for supporting teachers and learners
• Whole school evaluation