Literacy News
November 20, 2024
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Nov. 14, 2024 — Researchers find a link between early vocabulary composition and later language development in children with cochlear ...
Apr. 29, 2024 — Researchers tested a research-based intervention with English learners with math difficulty. The intervention proved to boost comprehension and help students synthesize and visualize information, ...
Mar. 6, 2024 — About one-third of autistic people are unable to communicate using speech, and most are never provided an effective alternative. However, a new study suggests that many of these individuals are literate, raising the possibility that they could learn ...
Mar. 1, 2024 — Are genetic factors underlying children's language development linked to later-life outcomes? In a genome-wide analysis, an international research team found genetic associations between children's ...
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Sep. 3, 2024 — A pen which can transform Braille into English text has been ...
June 18, 2024 — To get high scores at essay writing tests, learners of English as a foreign language need to focus on good arguments more than on complex grammar. The finding challenges conventional approaches to ...
Jan. 22, 2024 — No matter how well children are prepared for kindergarten, their transition to the classroom during the first few months plays a key role in their success, a new study ...
Jan. 3, 2024 — Sentences with greater linguistic complexity are most likely to fire up a key brain language processing center, according to a study that employed an artificial language ...
Nov. 27, 2023 — New research has shown that extra practice in blending printed letter sounds can help struggling beginner readers (age 4-5) learn to ...
Oct. 19, 2023 — Grouping English learners together in classrooms, a longstanding practice in schools, has no impact -- positive or negative -- on reading development ...
Oct. 17, 2023 — A new study has examined the role of several cognitive functions in young students learning to write English, their second language. The study ...
Aug. 28, 2023 — The UK's brightest pupils' chances of getting top GCSE grades are actually lower in grammar schools than in comprehensives, according to a major new ...
Aug. 23, 2023 — An understanding of how words can be broken down into smaller units of meaning plays a key role when deaf and hard of hearing children learn to read, ...
Apr. 18, 2023 — A new study investigates where toddlers look when they learn new words. It finds that children with larger vocabularies looked quickly towards objects when learning new words. Meanwhile, children who ...
Earlier Headlines
July 4, 2024 — New findings challenge the idea that academically selective schools are necessary for clever pupils to achieve good ...
June 26, 2024 — Reading comprehension is crucial for success in school and society but can be difficult for children initially. Decodable texts are widely believed to help by focusing on taught letter-sound ...
Nov. 17, 2022 — A study has found that although there were steep learning losses in reading for elementary school students during the COVID-19 pandemic, in-person learning opportunities helped some of those students ...
Nov. 16, 2022 — Neuroscientists find that brain signatures of reading difficulties in students from lower socioeconomic backgrounds are, on average, different from those of students from higher socioeconomic ...
Oct. 26, 2022 — Texts used in second language (L2) classrooms have traditionally been simplified manually. With recent technological advances, text can be simplified automatically through artificial ...
Oct. 21, 2022 — An innovative program to support children with reading difficulties helped them make significant progress when used online, new analysis ...
June 8, 2022 — Children who move while learning sounds of letters significantly improve their ability to recognize individual letter ...
May 23, 2022 — A new report argues that efforts to increase girls' participation in education in different parts of Africa should assess the detrimental effect teaching in English is having on ...
Apr. 11, 2022 — A new study finds that children can develop key reading skills in a virtual classroom with other ...
Apr. 5, 2022 — Researchers report that two seemingly opposing theories of language processing are both correct. The study shows that greater left-brain asymmetry can predict both better performance and average ...
Mar. 18, 2022 — An earlier study had raised doubts about the effectiveness of learning English in the first grade. Now, researchers have observed that it improves language performance over an extended period of ...
Learning Through ‘guided’ Play Can Be as Effective as Adult-Led Instruction Up to at Least Age Eight
Jan. 12, 2022 — Teaching younger children through 'guided' play supports key aspects of their learning and development at least as well - and sometimes better - than the traditional direct instruction they ...
Jan. 10, 2022 — Writing evolves to become simpler and more efficient, according to a new study based on the analysis of an isolated West African writing ...
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- Learning Through ‘guided’ Play Can Be as Effective as Adult-Led Instruction Up to at Least Age Eight