English Language Support Programme (Trinity Immigration Initiative)

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The Trinity Immigration Initiative

The Trinity Immigration Initiative brings together key strands of Trinity College’s strategic plan in order to support the development of a more inclusive, multicultural Ireland. The TII’s first activity is a research programme on Diversity, Integration and Policy that was launched in 2007 and will run till 2010. The programme comprises six interacting projects:

Parallel Societies or Overlapping Diversities
National Policy Impacts
Migrant Careers and Aspirations
Action Research on Community Relations
Migrant Networks – Facilitating Migrant Integration
English Language Support Programme for Post-primary Schools

Click here for more details The Trinity Immigration Initiative

What's new?

english language award The ELSP has won the 2009 European Award for Languages - click here for details

Jury's comments "Feedback from involved teachers very positive about motivation of students and this is motivating for teachers...Very impressed with project...Valuable idea transferable to e.g. Gaelscoileanna."

newly added Click here for a Report into English Language Support in Irish Post-Primary Schools - Policy, challenges and deficits (pdf format)

Study
Remember, these units are further supplemented with a wide range of appropriate language learning and self-study activities suitable for post-primary students to do individually, in pairs or in small groups.
We again acknowledge Gill & Macmillan for their permission to reproduce certain short texts in some of these Units.

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	English Language Support Programme, Trinity College Dublin, Dublin 2, Ireland The English Language Support Programme is part of the Trinity Immigration Initiative (funded by AIB)