She is a teacher educator on pre-service and in-service teacher education programmes and her main research interest is in teachers’ classroom practice for children with EAL. Before her move to higher education Naomi was a primary school teacher in inner-city, multilingual schools for 17 years. Her research and publications have focused on the experiences of Polish children and their teachers in schools in Hampshire, and on how teachers and re-searchers can work together to produce practical, online EAL guidance for busy professionals. At Reading Naomi co-convenes the Language and Literacy in Education research group. Naomi is also the convenor for the Berkshire-Hampshire NALDIC RIG and a member of NALDIC executive committee.