It comes after a report into the education of student with English as an additional language (EAL) concluded that the Proficiency in English Scale is the “best predictor” of EAL learners’ attainment.
Published by the University of Oxford, The Bell Foundation and Unbound Philanthropy, the report urges schools to continue using the scale “to assess the proficiency in English of their EAL pupils” and to “identify need and target support”.
The report analyses January 2017 School Census data of more than 140,000 pupils attending 1,569 schools across six local authorities. It found that learners with EAL are a heterogeneous group encompassing a “vast range of language skills, from pupils who have had little exposure to English, through to those brought up in a multilingual home”.
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