Our History:

SATEAL (or SATESL as it was originally called) was formed in the late 70's, when the arrival of the Vietnamese Boat People brought ESL into greater prominence in Scotland.  Betty Barr, who was ESL Coordinator for Fife, convened a national meeting of ESL teachers  at Balwearie High School, Kirkcaldy.  Ollie McLaughlan, the Rector of Balwearie, took an active interest in ESL and attended the meeting.  According to him, he came up with the suggestion of forming an association for the teachers of ESL in Scotland.  He threatened to lock the doors and keep the participants there until they came up with a name and elected office-bearers!

Welcome to The Scottish Association for Teaching English as an
Additional Language

We provide useful resources for those of you teaching English as an additional language.
Annually we hold a conference and publish a newsletter.

SATEAL Conference 2012

We would like to invite SATEAL members and non-members to the annual SATEAL conference on Saturday 17th March 2012 at the Auchterderran Centre, Fife. (registration 9.15am)

 "Global Village Global Voices "

speakers:
Dr Jean Conteh - Leeds University. “Global voices in local spaces.”
Prof. Vivian Cook - Newcastle University. “Going beyond the native speaker to the successful second language user”

Conference details -opens pdf, you will need Adobe Reader get acrobat

Each year the SATEAL Committee organises a conference for teachers and staff in Scotland who are working with Bilingual and EAL pupils in schools.
There is usually a renowned speaker, some workshop sessions and resources on display plus the invaluable opportunity to network with professionals in this field from across Scotland.

The powerpoints and pdfs from last year's (2011) conference are now available in the resources section.