Understanding academic progress and attainment in multilingual learners

Schools use a variety of baseline data to assess the academic competency of their learners. However, in the international school setting, the presence of large multilingual populations makes understanding academic progress and attainment extremely complex. Finding assessment tools appropriate for cohorts for whom English is an additional language can be problematic and the data produced from academic competency tests needs careful contextualisation and interpretation. At the same time, academic English language proficiency is key to attainment and progress in learners with EAL, yet is often not assessed at all.

This webinar takes a practical approach to how monitoring progress and outcomes in multilingual learners might be more reliably achieved and how baseline data can be used to develop more child-focused learning approaches.

The session is led by Dr Helen Wood, Head of School Partnerships at Password English Language Testing, and Ian Morris, Head of EAL at Moreton Hall School.