EAL learners have an entitlement to experience a full and varied curriculum, irrespective of their current proficiency in English. The distinctive position of EAL teaching and learning is that pupils/students acquire academic English through the context of the curriculum and an approach that attempts to teach English in isolation, as a precursor to learning the wider curriculum, is not recommended. In general provision that withdraws beginner EAL learners from the classroom is not advised for reasons outlined below.
Mainstream Versus Withdrawal