EAL for Parents
Effective engagement of families and communities involves creating collaborative partnerships with families that treat them with dignity and respect, honour their values and choices, and provide support and education to inform choices which strengthen and enhance their functioning as a family (Dunst et al. 2014).
Cited in CECV Resource Guide: Children from Culturally and Linguistically Diverse Backgrounds.
Aberdeen City EAL Service
Multilingual guidance for parents:
Helping your child learn brochures in Arabic,Bengali, Chinese, English, Gujarati, Lithuanian, Polish, Punjabi, Romanian, Somali, Urdu
DET Victoria Parents
Translated advice on numeracy and numeracy for parents.
Transition tips for parents of Foundation, Yr 7 and VCE.
DET, Victoria
Engaging Parents in Career Conversations (EPiCC) is an online resource that careers practitioners can use to engage CALD parents in the career development of young people in schools, Learn Local and VET providers.
Essex County Council EAL
Multilingual booklets: The Importance of Home Language for CALD parents of Early Years students in:
Arabic, Bengali, Bulgarian, French, Gujurati, Hungarian, Italian, Latvian, Lithuanian, Malayalam, Mandarin, Polish, Portugese, Punjabi, Rumanian, Russian, Spanish, Thai, Turkish, Urdu.
NB: some sections only relevant to UK context.
RUMACCC (Research Unit for Multilingualism and Cross-Cultural Communication) at University of Melbourne
The Research Unit for Multilingualism and Cross-Cultural Communication (RUMACCC) is committed to sharing its research with the wider community. In particular, we make available information about bilingualism and multilingualism and materials for people interested and involved in bilingual language acquisition.