Talking Time: Empowering staff to enhance oral language in the early years

The Talking Time research trial identified positive impacts for staff language-supporting practice, and for the oral language skills of three-to-five-year-olds in disadvantaged areas. It was funded by the Nuffield Foundation and led by a team of researchers from the IOE, University College London's Faculty of Education and Society, the University of Oxford's Department of Education, and Newcastle University.

This launch event will consist of a panel discussion followed by a Q&A session.

Speakers

Opening remarks

• Dr Susana Castro Kemp, Centre for Inclusive Education, IOE, University College London 

Panel discussion

• Chaired by Professor Kathy Sylva, University of Oxford 
• Professor Julie Dockrell, IOE, University College London
• Keeley Dobinson, IOE, University College London
• Dr Sandra Mathers, University of Oxford
• Dr Elizabeth Hewitt, University of Oxford
• Dr Amelia Roberts, Centre for Inclusive Education, IOE, University College London

This event will be particularly useful for educators, researchers and policy makers. 

Please note this is a hybrid event and can be joined either in-person or online.

Related links

• Report - Empowering staff to enhance oral language in the early years: Cluster randomised trial
• Read: Bespoke support for nursery practitioners in disadvantaged areas would boost language development
• Project page: Empowering staff to enhance oral language in the early years
• Centre for Language, Literacy and Numeracy: Research and Practice (LLNR&P)
• Nuffield Foundation