Ramadan mubarak from EFA’s Friday morning class! This morning, one of our groups, led by EFA teacher-organiser Dermot, participated in a group-writing activity about Islam and the holy month of Ramadan. They wanted to share this with our community: “Ramadan is very important in Islam, because the Quran was given to the Prophet Mohammed in […]
Tag: ESOL
By Adela Belecova and Anne McConnell, EFA teacher-organisers It was great to come together this month for two English Language Fairs in Lambeth and East London with fellow local ESOL (English for Speakers of Other Languages), adult education and service providers! During the fairs, over 130 migrant community members got information about local provision and […]
By Kasia Blackman, EFA teacher-organiser and South London hub lead Today on International Mother Language Day – which celebrates people’s universal right to study their heritage languages – we’re excited to share these recommendations from the Global Call to Action for Heritage Language Education think tank. The recommendations contain concrete examples of how students, heritage […]
By Anne McConnell, EFA teacher-organiser The Voice of Domestic Workers, or simply ‘The Voice’, exists to advocate for the re-instatement of the Migrant Domestic Workers visa systematically rescinded by the UK government in 2012. The group’s campaigning has stepped up a gear with general and mayoral elections looming in 2024. I work with The Voice through […]
By Robin Sivapalan, teacher-organiser and former EFA Brent hub lead At English for Action London’s May 2023 conference on trauma-informed ESOL, we began the day with an exercise aimed at exploring the theme of ‘connection’ and how we seek to build connection through our work as participatory ESOL teachers. Following the conference, Laura Wiggin, department […]
By Ziheng Liew, EFA Volunteer, and Fatime Jadallah, EFA teacher-organiser On Saturday, 22 July, over 100 people (ESOL students, volunteers, teachers and other supporters) gathered in St. John’s Church in Waterloo to as part of our #LoveESOL campaign to improve access to English for Speakers of Other Languages (ESOL) provision across Greater London. Our campaigning […]
By Robin Sivapalan, EFA teacher-organiser and Brent hub lead Fifteen Participatory ESOL teachers made it along to the two meet-ups we held in the busy penultimate week of the Summer 2023 term. We’re looking forward to September, carrying forward a theme from the conference – creating connections and relationships in the classroom. Monday’s meet-up considered […]
By Dermot Bryers, EFA teacher-organiser and Pedagogy lead We’ve been discussing and learning about climate change in class lately. As part of this theme, we wanted to reach out to the Mayor of London to advocate for changes in our community that would have a positive impact on our neighbourhoods. We have sent the Mayor’s […]
Greenwich By Lucie Vyhnálková, EFA teacher-organiser and Greenwich hub lead ‘Compassion’ was the motto of this year’s Refugee Week (19-25 June 2023). We discussed what compassion means in our weekly, Greenwich-based ESOL classes hosted in-person at Robert Owen Children’s Centre and online. We found translating the word into our other languages helped us. Students expressed their […]
By Robin Sivapalan, EFA teacher-organiser and Brent hub lead Between EFA’s Our World class and our Sunday ESOL class in partnership with The Voice of Domestic Workers, we’ve been having interesting discussions about social mobility and social inequality. Longstanding EFA student Tereshina sent me a copy of a book — hot off the press — […]
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