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Multilingual learners reap significant academic benefits and outpace monolingual peers

Research from Professor Roberto Filippi (IOE) shows that early multilingual exposure creates long-term academic benefits for multilingual students compared to their monolingual peers, and its cultural factors offset the negative effects of low socioeconomic status.

03 Oct 2024

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, a new paper by researchers from IOE, UCL’s Faculty of Education and Society, Imperial College and Birkbeck College shows.

06 May 2022

IOE named World Number 1 for Education in QS subject rankings

IOE, UCL’s Faculty of Education and Society, has been named Number 1 for Education in the QS World University Rankings by Subject for the ninth year in a row.

06 Apr 2022

No harm to cognitive and linguistic development for second language learners

Multilingual acquisition is not detrimental for cognitive and linguistic development, a research project from UCL Institute of Education (IOE) and Anglia Ruskin University has found.

03 Dec 2021

New project examines how COVID-19 impacts literacy and numeracy for disadvantaged pupils in Israel

Researchers at UCL Institute of Education (IOE) and Beit Berl College in Israel have obtained funding to assess the impact of COVID-19 on early literacy and numeracy amongst disadvantaged pupils in Israel.

05 Mar 2021

New project to examine how effective homeschooling has been

A new project examining how effective homeschooling has been for pupils during the COVID-19 pandemic, has been launched by UCL Institute of Education (IOE).

22 May 2020

Brain science reveals neural structures differ between monolinguals and multilinguals

A new study, conducted by UCL Institute of Education (IOE) and Anglia Ruskin University, found that there were structural differences between monolingual and multilingual speakers in a region of the cerebellum.

21 May 2020

IOE academic delivers seminar on the benefits of multilingualism

UCL Institute of Education (IOE) academic Dr Roberto Filippi has delivered a seminar on multilingualism in primary education.

28 Jan 2020

Exploring the effects of learning more than one language on cognitive development

UCL Institute of Education (IOE) academic Dr Roberto Filippi has delivered a lecture at the EIFA International School in London exploring some of the most exciting scientific findings in multi-language acquisition.

15 Jan 2020

IOE academics announced as London branch Co-Directors of bilingualism and language centre

Dr Roberto Filippi and Professor Li Wei join colleagues from the University of London and the University of Westminster to form the Bilingualism Matters London leadership group.

01 Nov 2019

Anxiety and rumination impact bilingual individuals differently to monolingual individuals

A new study by UCL Institute of Education (IOE) and Anglia Ruskin University provides compelling evidence that bilingual people who display non-clinical levels of anxiety and rumination do not complete some tasks as accurately as people who only speak one language.

24 Sep 2019

IOE academic sponsors Rina Bottai Creative Writing Award celebrating hometown primary school teacher

UCL Institute of Education (IOE) academic, Dr Roberto Filippi, pays tribute to the lasting impact of primary school teachers with a new creative writing award in Livorno, Italy.

05 Jun 2019

UCL Institute of Education retains world number one position for Education in QS subject rankings

UCL Institute of Education (IOE) has been ranked as the world number one for Education for the sixth year in a row, the latest QS World University Rankings by Subject published today (27 February) reveal.

27 Feb 2019

UCL Institute of Education remains first for Education in QS subject rankings

UCL Institute of Education (IOE) has been ranked as the world number one for Education for the fifth year running, in the latest QS World University Rankings by Subject.

28 Feb 2018

UCL Institute of Education remains number one for Education in QS subject rankings

The UCL Institute of Education (IOE) has been ranked as the world number one for Education for the fourth year running, in the latest QS World University Rankings by Subject.

08 Mar 2017

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