In the UK, the numbers of 16-year-olds studying a modern foreign language (French, German and Spanish) are low, as is foreign language proficiency when compared with the rest of Europe….Read More >
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How moving dots are helping us learn more about dyslexia in children
Around one in ten children in the UK have dyslexia, a developmental condition which means that they struggle to learn to read. It often causes difficulties in spelling too. Reading…Read More >
One Brain, Two Tongues: Why Bilingualism Matters
Being able to speak more than one language is an advantage in its own right. The capability to communicate in another language can boost one’s career prospects, it makes it…Read More >
Gaming for Grammar
Learning grammar is a fundamental part of learning a new language, because it can help us understand how we build words and how we put those words together to make…Read More >
Going online during a global pandemic
The ongoing COVID-19 pandemic has affected all aspects of our personal and professional lives in ways that we could not even have imagined just a few months ago. If someone…Read More >
How speaking another language is good for your brain
Speaking more than one language can change the physical structure of your brain. How and why does this happen, and what implications might this have across our lifetimes from a…Read More >
Reading researchers excel in O2RB Impact Awards
Reading social sciences projects to integrate hospital data and to improve language learning in the classroom have been recognised in this year’s O2RB Excellence in Impact Awards. Dr Weizi Li…Read More >