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Podcast: BERA UK Podcast
Episode: Pupils with English as an Additional Language, their families and COVID-19: current challenges and finding a way forward
Description: In this episode Dr Barbara Skinner and two PhD Researchers from Ulster University, Maria Stewart and Ronan Kelly, discuss how the COVID-19 pandemic has impacted primary and post-primary pupils with English as an Additional Language (EAL) and their families. The discussion centres on the particular challenges that they have faced during the home-schooling period and will face as they return to the classroom including language development, access to support and home-school communication.The BERA Literacy and Language SIG have is interested in exploring the relationship between language and literacy and work in related fields, such as cultural s...