Welcome to ESLYL03 Teaching young children in English in multilingual contexts.

This course provides teachers working across the curriculum with successful classroom strategies for improving the learning achievements of young children aged 5 -7, with a focus on their ELL students. This course incorporates a program of group workshops, activities and classroom-based action research and readings practical readings.

One of the key aims of this course is to develop teachers' understanding of the notion of meaning making and how they can use that to inform the kinds of scaffolding that will build young students' capacity for meaning making in multilingual classrooms.