EAL guidance: Supporting secondary pupils to take a GCSE in their first language
Language GCSEs are available in the following languages:
- Afrikaans - IGCSE
- Arabic
- Bengali
- Chinese (Mandarin)
- French
- German
- Greek (Modern)
- Gujarati
- Hebrew (Modern)
- Hindi: IGCSE
- Italian
- Japanese
- Malay IGCSE
- Modern Hebrew
- Persian/Farsi
- Polish
- Portuguese
- Panjabi
- Russian
- Spanish
- Swahili - IGCSE
- Turkish
- Urdu
- Vietnamese IGCSE
- Welsh
Click here for further details on entering a pupil for a language GCSE, deadlines for this, and arranging oral examiners.
To request any other support for pupils with EAL from the EAL/EDC advisory team, please ring the Inclusion and SEND Helpline on 0333 313 7165.
Last modified:
9 June 2026
11:26
