Assessing core language skills in the Born-in-Bradford cohort: Administering a Comprehensive Language Assessment Tool for Children of Various Linguistic Backgrounds
- Dates: 2020–21
- Funding body: Bradford Institute of Health Research
- Primary investigator: Prof Cécile De Cat (Leeds, LCS)
- Co-investigators: Dr Ekaterini Klepousniotou (School of Psychology, Leeds) and Lydia Gunning (Linguistics & Phonetics, Leeds)
- L@L satellite: Language Development and Cognition
- L@L themes: Language and Cognition, Language Learning and Teaching
Language development underpins children’s social development and their achievement of good learning outcomes. The purpose of the Speech & Language Action Project is to improve children’s life chances through effective language support and interventions. In practice, we aim to:
- Help schools access and produce evidence of effective practice
- Work in partnership with language practitioners to inform the translation of research findings into practice and co-develop a research agenda, focusing on areas of need
- Gather evidence on the factors that influence language development in monolingual and multilingual children
The work of this Action Project is informed by a group of Yorkshire-based researchers, teaching improvement consultants, speech & language therapists, head teachers and teachers. We also benefit from the expertise of an Advisory Board, comprising national and international experts in language development.