Our centre
Director: Dr Miriam McBreen, Lecturer in Psychology
Deputy Director: Dr Juhayna Taha, Lecturer in Language and Literacy
The Centre for Language, Literacy and Numeracy: Research & Practice (LLNR&P) is a cross-departmental unit within IOE.
Consultancy and resources
Find out about consultancy activities and resources at the Centre for Language, Literacy and Numeracy.
Our aim
We draw on a wide range of expertise from psychology, education, and speech and language therapy, aiming to identify the ways in which language and literacy skills work together to support learning and attainment.
Our distinctive focus is on the link between theory and practice and the evaluation of interventions to support oral language, literacy and numeracy competencies.
News
Bespoke support for nursery practitioners in disadvantaged areas would boost language development
Early years practitioners working in socially disadvantaged areas should receive bespoke professional training to help boost children’s English oral language development, finds a study led by IOE.
30 Jun 2023
Bilingualism has a positive effect on working memory, especially in disadvantaged pupils
Bilingualism has a positive effect in measures of working memory, visuo-spatial processing and non-verbal reasoning.
06 May 2022
Helping disadvantaged nursery children to develop their language skills
We meet an IOE researcher focused on the development of language in young people, particularly for those disproportionately affected by the pandemic and living in deprived areas.
21 Mar 2022
What's on
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Reading at the transition from primary to secondary school: What do we know and what can we do?17:30 - 19:30
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Department of Psychology and Human Development
UCL Institute of Education
University College London
20 Bedford Way
London WC1H 0AL
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