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Mathematical ideas, concepts or procedures are interconnected; they therefore cannot be understood well in isolation. Mathematical connections made in the classroom give students opportunities to...
Continue reading blog postThe Times Education Commission produced its final report in June 2022, making forty-five recommendations for reforming the English education system. The recommendations ranged from the banal –...
Continue reading blog postDual-language books are bilingual books that present the same narrative in two different languages. In most cases, the whole book is written in two languages throughout: one side of the text in...
Continue reading blog postFindings from studies captured in this special issue make for compelling reading about the direction of language and literacy research in the UK and further afield. Ian Collen, from Queen’s...
Continue reading blog postAn interest in neurolinguistics and the idea that children’s development of thought and language is interdependent (Vygotsky, 1962; Bloom, 2000) has led to my research about how classroom talk...
Continue reading blog postQualifications in modern languages are changing. Qualifications and assessment reform is on the political agenda in England, Scotland and Wales; while in Northern Ireland, the Council for...
Continue reading blog postThe teaching of reading and writing understandably attracts attention from researchers, teachers and policymakers because of the importance of literacy for children’s educational development....
Continue reading blog postThis special issue of the ½¿É«µ¼º½ Blog places a spotlight on educational research in the field of language and literacy. Covering a range of topics from modern language learning to language as an...
Dimensions of language in schools Many educators will be familiar with the saying that ‘all teachers are language teachers’ and few would argue that language doesn’t play a crucial role in...
Continue reading blog postWhen students move from primary to secondary school, one of the numerous challenges that they encounter is language. The language of school academic activity is importantly different from the...
Continue reading blog postSpeaking an international language is crucial to understanding another culture and for long-term growth and prosperity (British Academy et al., 2020). So, no matter how many people around the...
Continue reading blog postResearch on English language teacher training, digital literacies and gender equality in low-and-middle-income countries (LMIC) is a strategic priority according to UN Sustainable Development Goal...
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