English course methods criticised [IrishTimes]
- Published: 11 February 2010
The current model for teaching English in primary schools to non-English-speaking children does not work for some multi-ethnic schools, an Oireachtas committee on education was told today.
Tony McGinley, principal of St John the Evangelist NS in Adamstown, west Dublin, said the English as an Additional Language (EAL) model is based on immersion in English, but immersion wasn't possible when 87 per cent of pupils at his school didn't have English as a first language.
He also told the committee the school, built in 2008, had a library, but no books to put in it.
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