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Pandemic babies - those born into 'strange times' - are starting primary school this week. BBC News reports on their experiences and how Prof Cat Davies and colleagues at other institutions are investigating Covid19 effects through the UKRI-funded BICYCLE project Their findings aim to support children born during the pandemic as they develop. BBC News interview:...
The more time pre-schoolers spent in childcare during the first year of the pandemic, the more their vocabulary grew, a new study has found.
Findings from the DART project have demonstrated the potential of computerised dynamic tasks of decoding and vocabulary learning to improve screening for reading difficulties especially in children with English as an Additional Language. https://dart.leeds.ac.uk/findings/
The Be Curious LATES winter series showcased research by L@L colleagues: Cat Davies presented results from two projects on the impact of disruption to Early Years Education and Care during lockdowns and its effects on the development of young children from diverse backgrounds. You can watch the video on YouTube.
This double-length article reports on a multifaceted investigation of the environmental and cognitive predictors of proficiency in English as the school language, in a diverse group of 5- to 7-year-old heritage speakers of a variety of other languages. It adopts a data-driven approach to compare the informativity of alternative predictors (e.g., current vs. cumulative language...
Some of Language@Leeds' activity was represented at the Festival of Interdisciplinary Research, under the Culture Theme. Taking place on 3 May 2018, the festival provided the opportunity to meet people from the University’s Themes and Platforms, which drive and support the development of interdisciplinary research. It showcased examples of how our researchers work across the...
Helen Sadig (Language Centre) and Cecile De Cat (Linguistics & Phonetics) have been awarded an Excellence and Innovation Fellowship by the Leeds Institute for Teaching Excellence for 2018/19 for the project “Building a civic curriculum: Helping local schools better support EAL children through enhanced student impact and teacher CPD”. Helen will design a language training...
Dr Davies's successful research grant award will fund the project “Children's experience, understanding, and use of adjectives across the socioeconomic spectrum”. Congratulations to Dr Cat Davies who has been awarded a grant of £300,000 from the Economic and Social Research Council to support a three-year project on language and socioeconomic disadvantage. The project aims to...
Lecturer in Language Education, Dr Lou Harvey, together with the theatre company, Cap-a-Pie, developed The Translator, a work-in-progress theatrical performance based on her research into the language and intercultural learning experience of UK Higher Education students from abroad. The major finding from her doctoral project was that participants experienced communicative difficulties in their intercultural encounters as a...
On June 21 2017, Language@Leeds hosted a networking event to set up a region-wide collaboration aiming to enhance the support for pupils with English as an Additional Language. The event hosted over 50 stakeholders from across the region including teachers, speech and language therapists, researchers, representatives from local authorities and charitable organisations. To find out more about this event, the network, or the...