article_snippet.sent: A union conference heard today that schools are struggling to cope with an influx of children arriving in classes unable to speak English.
article_snippet.sent: A union conference heard today that schools are struggling to cope with an influx of children arriving unable to speak English - forcing some teachers to use Google translate to make lesson plans in other languages .
article_snippet.sent: They also said English-speaking children are not getting English-speaking children
article_snippet.sent: Oxfordshire teacher Joy Wilson said many staff had little or no training in how to deal with pupils with English as an additional language (EAL).
article_snippet.sent: Oxfordshire teacher Joy Wilson said: ‘UK schools are educating a rising number of EAL pupils.
article_snippet.sent: Oxfordshire teacher Joy Wilson pointed out that it takes some pupils up to seven years to gain adequate language proficiency for academic work - which means some pupils lack of English holds some pupils back.
article_snippet.sent: Oxfordshire teacher Joy Wilson said that it was even harder to deal with those who had ‘complex needs’ such as communication disorders, autism and moderate learning difficulties if those who had ‘complex needs’ such as communication disorders, autism and moderate learning difficulties if they also had poor English skills also had poor English skills.
article_snippet.sent: Diane Wilson, who also teaches in Oxfordshire, told the conference in Liverpool she had Hungarian, Russian and Portuguese children in she class.
article_snippet.sent: Malcolm St John-Smith, from Wakefield, said pupils were arriving in schools with English which was ‘rudimentary to say the least’ and not developing Malcolm St John-Smith, from Wakefield skills at home.
article_snippet.sent: Ofsted chief Sir Michael Wilshaw warned last year that schools needed more help to deal with growing numbers of children who cannot speak English.
article_snippet.sent: Ofsted chief Sir Michael Wilshaw said: ‘When they’re faced with an influx of children from other countries, they need the resources and capacity to deal with it.
highlights_snippet.sent: Schools are struggling to cope with children who cannot speak English .
  