Whilst current UK education planning acknowledges the need to accommodate an increasingly multicultural and multilingual society, there is no guidance in the National Curriculum on how to manage this, leaving schools to make their own provisions for managing a multilingual classroom. This study looks at the attitudes towards English as an Additional Language (EAL) within two schools. It considers the attitudes of the press, school inspectors, and teaching staff towards what the best methods to manage the teaching of literacy skills within a multilingual classroom are. It discusses the...