Research
Research in the Centre for Language, Literacy and Numeracy.
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Projects
Upcoming and current projects
- The key to oral language (lead: Julie Dockrell, funded by Heather van der Lely Foundation)
- Empowering staff to enhance oral language in the early years (lead: Julie Dockrell, funded by the Nuffield Foundation)
- Breaking into sign language: the role of input and individual differences (lead: Chloë Marshall, funded by the Leverhulme Trust)
- Language-learning needs on school entry: profiling phonology, morphology and narrative (lead: Julie Dockrell and Emma Sumner, funded by the Heather van der Lely Foundation)
- Teaching Grammar for writing (lead: Dominic Wyse, UCL Learning & Leadership, funded by the Nuffield Foundation)
- Practice around Access Arrangements for Students with SpLDs (PASS) (co-leads: Emma Sumner and Catherine Antalek, funded by the Nuffield Foundation)
Past projects include
- iRead: Personalised reading apps for Primary school children (lead: Asimina Vasalou, UCL Knowledge Lab, funded by a European H2020 grant)
- Multilanguage acquisition across the lifespan (lead: Roberto Filippi, funded by the Leverhulme Trust)
- Flexible Phonics (lead: Professor Robert Savage funded by Education Endowment Foundation)
- Revision of the national curriculum for English
- The Better Communication Research Project - Watch BCRP 1: What is the Better Communication Research Programme? (video)
- Involvement in the COST action "An integrated and inclusive approach to language and literacy in Europe".
- The Early Years Measures database
Hear from our researchers
- Embedding research into language literacy and numeracy practice (March 2022)
- Studying how adults learn sign languages (February 2022)
- Literacy in children and adults: not only cognition but also emotion and motivation (Summer 2021)
- Research updates and Q&As (Summer 2020)