Teachers and educators are invited to join us for a full-day workshop exploring the evidence around teaching children for whom English is an Additional Language (EAL).
📅 10 July
⌚ 9am - 5.15pm
📍 Department of Education
Sign up now and secure an early bird ticket 👉 bit.ly/4cvov2w
"A massive new analysis of over 1,700 languages shows that some long-debated “universal” grammar rules are actually real."
www.sciencedaily.com/releases/202...
Thank you so much for sharing, Danijela! 🧚🏼♀️
You will unpack the research on playful learning with Prof Kathy Sylva OBE, and get involved in workshops led by me (🎭), @cateh.bsky.social (🎶), @sararatner.bsky.social (🎮) and Jasen Booton (🧸).
Find out more about the event here ➡️ bit.ly/3MZdH3V
Grab the last few tickets here ➡️ shorturl.at/CEdgT
we see the hands of a young child putting toy bees in toy beehive using a tool.
We're almost a week away from ‘Playful Pedagogies: Critical Thinking, Creativity, Constructing Meaning’! 🧩
If you are a practitioner, researcher or student who is interested in finding out more about play-based pedagogies, join us at the Department of Education (@education.ox.ac.uk) on 25/03/2026!
📣 Delighted that our article reporting the findings of a pilot study investigating the effectiveness of a novel oral language intervention conducted through the medium of #drama, has now been published #openaccess at First Language: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/... @oxforddeptofed.bsky.social 🥳
Aw, thanks Kedi!
Also interested in & working on sequential bilingualism/early language learning - happy to connect! 🙂
🚨🚨 Out TODAY in Psych Bulletin!! 🚨🚨
After 5 long years, the NSF meta-analysis I led on children's gender stereotypes about STEM and verbal abilities just came out today in Psych Bulletin!!
In the words of great cultural critic Stefon, it has everything...
doi.org/10.1037/bul0...
Informative & thoughtful thread about international students' proficiency, university requirements, and academic attainment 👇🏼
Excited to share a new paper offering guidance for demographic reporting for authors, editors, and reviewers in developmental research. An enjoyable collaboration with the MB Demographics group!
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Leeds has a fully funded scholarship program for undergraduate and Masters study for Gaza students.
**Tell Everyone**
www.leeds.ac.uk/masters-scho...
We have just launched two online, part time Postgraduate Diplomas at Oxford. One in English as an Additional language and the other in Early Childhood Education. Perfect for in service teachers wishing to gain formal qualifications in these areas.
EAL: bit.ly/3Y5FceH
ECE: bit.ly/4emVV35
#EduSky
📣 If your (Oxfordshire-based) primary school is interested in taking part in a knowledge exchange discussion (can be organised as CPD) about using drama in the classroom, get in touch with me to talk more at: faidra.faitaki@education.ox.ac.uk. Thank you #EduSky🍎! 🌸
So happy to be speaking to @hwc001.bsky.social about our little drama-based oral language intervention pilot! To find out if using drama activities can help develop primary-school children's oral language, have a listen to the new episode of the Oxford Education Deanery Podcast! 🎧🎭🤓
Congratulations, Kedi! 🥳🥳🥳
screenshot of title and authors of paper + map with 18 colorful box callouts showing where datasets came from
GOOD MORNING BLUESKY!
Very excited about this new paper:
www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2300671120
Key Q: what predicts how much young kids (👶)talk?
How much 🗣 kids heard predicted how much 👶talked, but other factors, e.g. mom’s education, didn’t. #PsychSci #DevPsy 🗣💬
INCOMING SUMMARY🧵ALERT 1/14
Really useful blog about picking colours for data visualisation blog.datawrapper.de/beautifulcol... #dataviz
Thanks for sharing, lovely Cate! 💖
Line drawing of a ribbon wrapped around a heart reading "Every language varies; every language changes; every language matters"
I made a coloring sheet for some reading week de-stressing for my #Linguistics / composition students
📢 Our paper (w/ the brilliant Hamish Chalmers & Victoria Murphy) reporting on a Priority Setting Partnership in which users of EAL research (teachers, support staff, parents) were asked to decide the Top 10 priorities for future research on EAL, is 🔓 & out now! Have a read & tell us your thoughts!👇🏼
I totally agree! And to add to that, learning science tells us that reducing stress, anxiety, and alienation is critical for learning. So anyone teaching in a way that heightens those negative emotions in students is not practicing learning science.
Censorship does happen in science. It's just not happening to the people who think they are being censored.
Amazing! Massive congratulations! 🌸
Dr Sophie Liggins introducing the Lex15.
Dr Faidra Faitaki explaining the importance of accurate vocabulary assessment in young learners.
Chuffed to have co-presented our paper on the #Lex15, a new test for assessing productive #vocabulary in young (multilingual) children, at #LTF2023 organised by UKALTA at the British Council this morning! Impressed by all the interesting talks, the supportive crowd & thought-provoking discussions! 🤗
Structural priming = facilitation of sentence structure by recent exposure to that structure. Production & comprehension are hard to compare, as data types different: choices vs. RTs. We therefore used the MAZE task to gather both types of data in both modalities: www.tandfonline.com/eprint/ZFZXZ...
Congratulations! 👏🏼
"The perception of rhythm in language" by Anne Cutler. It's short but you won't forget it :)
Here's a blog post explaining why it's great. It contains a link to the paper.
www.kith.org/words/2022/0...
Welcome, Cate! 🌸
New #linguistics paper out with Annie Holtz in Infant & Child Development: “Examining the female-talker default in experimental language acquisition research”! In this paper, we examine the practice of using women’s voices in stimuli designed to test children’s language abilities