English for Action The ESOL Podcast EFA is delighted to be working with Amy Jowett, of Hackney Learning Trust and Action for ESOL fame, to produce an ESOL podcast imaginatively titled, The ESOL Podcast. We have long been thinking about doing a podcast with our students and are excited to be getting started. Why does the world we need another podcast? This is an ESOL podcast, and as far we we know […]
Last year EFA joined with three other European organisations (Giolli in Italy, ELAN in France and Nyitott Kor Egyeseult in Hungary ) on an Erasmus+ project called ‘Migreat!’. The aim of the project is to build the capacity of individuals and institutions working in participatory approaches and migrants’ rights to build counter narratives around migration. […]
At EFA we hold a monthly learning circle to explore a specific theme, allowing us to share knowledge and ideas, and think of creative ways to explore a variety of themes in our day-to-day practice. A recent theme we looked at was LGBT+ issues and ESOL. In the run up to the session, we read […]
English for Action and Tower Hamlets Idea Stores are holding a Green Month between 3rd February and 13th of March. Starts next week! The aim of this is to enhance learners’ knowledge of recycling, climate change and pollution and bring ESOL students’ voices into conversations about the climate crisis and allow them to be involved in the […]
At EFA we’ve been looking at the general election in many of our classes. We’ve been thinking about how best to explore the topic in class and create space for vital conversations to take place. We’re also interested in looking at the issues we care about and want to see take centre-stage during the election […]
“This is not a hustings”, explained Sarfraz Jeraj Lambeth Citizens leaders from the stage of a vast King’s College lecture theatre, “this is an assembly”. Last week English for action participated in two Citizens UK council elections on the same night with 32 of our students, teachers, volunteers and trustees split between the two events […]
Over 100 ESOL (English for Speakers of Other Languages) students and teachers participated in an outdoor teach-out to celebrate the European Day of Languages today. The teach out took place at City Hall because we want to work with the Mayor of London and his team to make ESOL central to his plans for adult […]
ESOL is a community, like may others across the country, deeply affected by the Grenfell fire. Many of our students and teachers at English for Action are terrified and heartbroken in equal measure. Nasrine Malik of the Guardian writes that the victims were overwhelmingly migrants, from all parts of the world. Many of them were […]
Discussing traumatic events such as terrorist attacks is always very difficult. As it’s the day after the tragic events in Manchester, EFA teachers went to class prepared for this and this is one example of how it was addressed in the classroom. This example is from one of our Entry 2/3 classes in Battersea: As […]
Today, my colleagues students from English for Action and I are taking part in ‘1 Day Without Us’. This is a nationwide day of action and celebration, aimed at drawing attention to the contribution that migrants make to Britain. We see it as a celebration of the array and diversity of cultures that exist on […]
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