Teachers and educators are invited to join us for a full-day workshop exploring the evidence around teaching children for whom English is an Additional Language (EAL). 📅 10 July ⌚ 9am - 5.15pm 📍 Department of Education Sign up now and secure an early bird ticket 👉 bit.ly/4cvov2w

"A massive new analysis of over 1,700 languages shows that some long-debated “universal” grammar rules are actually real." www.sciencedaily.com/releases/202...

Study of 1,700 languages reveals surprising hidden patterns

A massive new analysis of over 1,700 languages shows that some long-debated “universal” grammar rules are actually real. By using cutting-edge evolutionary methods, researchers found that languages te...

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We're almost a week away from ‘Playful Pedagogies: Critical Thinking, Creativity, Constructing Meaning’! 🧩 If you are a practitioner, researcher or student who is interested in finding out more about play-based pedagogies, join us at the Department of Education (@education.ox.ac.uk) on 25/03/2026!

📣 Delighted that our article reporting the findings of a pilot study investigating the effectiveness of a novel oral language intervention conducted through the medium of #drama, has now been published #openaccess at First Language: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/... @oxforddeptofed.bsky.social 🥳

Piloting a drama-based oral language intervention - Faidra Faitaki, Sophie Liggins, Victoria A. Murphy, 2025

Children’s oral language skills at the earliest stages of education are known to determine their success at school later on. Improving oral language skills is a...

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🚨🚨 Out TODAY in Psych Bulletin!! 🚨🚨 After 5 long years, the NSF meta-analysis I led on children's gender stereotypes about STEM and verbal abilities just came out today in Psych Bulletin!! In the words of great cultural critic Stefon, it has everything... doi.org/10.1037/bul0...

a man says " and it has everything " in front of a world map

ALT: a man says " and it has everything " in front of a world map

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Informative & thoughtful thread about international students' proficiency, university requirements, and academic attainment 👇🏼

Danijela Trenkic@danijelatrenkic.bsky.social · 2y ago

1/ Last week, a BBC report and podcast claimed UK universities enrol students with poor English to balance books. This sparked two reactions: "no shit, Sherlock" or outright denial. 🧵https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c0mzdejg1d3o

Excited to share a new paper offering guidance for demographic reporting for authors, editors, and reviewers in developmental research. An enjoyable collaboration with the MB Demographics group! www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Tools of the Trade: A Guide to Sociodemographic Reporting for Researchers, Reviewers, and Editors

In recent years, psychological researchers have been heavily criticized for generalizing broadly from narrow samples, a concern that intersects with questions about the validity, reproducibility, r...

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Leeds has a fully funded scholarship program for undergraduate and Masters study for Gaza students. **Tell Everyone** www.leeds.ac.uk/masters-scho...

We have just launched two online, part time Postgraduate Diplomas at Oxford. One in English as an Additional language and the other in Early Childhood Education. Perfect for in service teachers wishing to gain formal qualifications in these areas. EAL: bit.ly/3Y5FceH ECE: bit.ly/4emVV35 #EduSky

PGDip in English as an Additional Language | University of Oxford

About the courseThe PGDip in English as an Additional Language (EAL) is designed for education professionals working with multilingual learners in the national and international sectors. This

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So happy to be speaking to @hwc001.bsky.social about our little drama-based oral language intervention pilot! To find out if using drama activities can help develop primary-school children's oral language, have a listen to the new episode of the Oxford Education Deanery Podcast! 🎧🎭🤓

Hamish Chalmers@hwc001.bsky.social · 2y ago

New episode of the Oxford Education Deanery Podcast. Dr Faidra Faitaki (@faidra.bsky.social) talks with me about her research into using drama to support oral language proficiency with young learners. #EduSky podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/d...

GOOD MORNING BLUESKY! Very excited about this new paper: www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2300671120 Key Q: what predicts how much young kids (👶)talk? How much 🗣 kids heard predicted how much 👶talked, but other factors, e.g. mom’s education, didn’t. #PsychSci #DevPsy 🗣💬 INCOMING SUMMARY🧵ALERT 1/14

Really useful blog about picking colours for data visualisation blog.datawrapper.de/beautifulcol... #dataviz

How to pick more beautiful colors for your data visualizations - Datawrapper Blog

Choosing good colors for your charts is hard. This article tries to make it easier.

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I made a coloring sheet for some reading week de-stressing for my #Linguistics / composition students

📢 Our paper (w/ the brilliant Hamish Chalmers & Victoria Murphy) reporting on a Priority Setting Partnership in which users of EAL research (teachers, support staff, parents) were asked to decide the Top 10 priorities for future research on EAL, is 🔓 & out now! Have a read & tell us your thoughts!👇🏼

I totally agree! And to add to that, learning science tells us that reducing stress, anxiety, and alienation is critical for learning. So anyone teaching in a way that heightens those negative emotions in students is not practicing learning science.

Censorship does happen in science. It's just not happening to the people who think they are being censored.

Germán Bonilla-Rosso@germusthermophilus.bsky.social · 3y ago

🧪🧫🖥🧬🌎 A must-read for all those believers of pure meritocracy in academia... no, it's not that you're not a good scientist or that you're not working hard enough. 'Tis that the system is rigged. doi.org/10.1073/pnas...

Chuffed to have co-presented our paper on the #Lex15, a new test for assessing productive #vocabulary in young (multilingual) children, at #LTF2023 organised by UKALTA at the British Council this morning! Impressed by all the interesting talks, the supportive crowd & thought-provoking discussions! 🤗

Structural priming = facilitation of sentence structure by recent exposure to that structure. Production & comprehension are hard to compare, as data types different: choices vs. RTs. We therefore used the MAZE task to gather both types of data in both modalities: www.tandfonline.com/eprint/ZFZXZ...

"The perception of rhythm in language" by Anne Cutler. It's short but you won't forget it :) Here's a blog post explaining why it's great. It contains a link to the paper. www.kith.org/words/2022/0...

New #linguistics paper out with Annie Holtz in Infant & Child Development: “Examining the female-talker default in experimental language acquisition research”! In this paper, we examine the practice of using women’s voices in stimuli designed to test children’s language abilities

The linguistic elephant in scientific publishing: http://osf.io/5zxaf/

Are you going to the #NALDIC31 conference? If so, catch the brilliant Dr Sophie Liggins presenting our poster on 'Developing Oral Language through Drama', to find out about the project we just completed! We look forward to your comments & questions! 🤗

Hello, I have some new science! @emilymyers.bsky.social, Cristal Giorio, and @uconnlablab.bsky.social and I asked whether people expend more effort when listening to clear or casual speech by measuring the size of their pupils. A brief 🧵. Read the full paper here: journals.lww.com/ear-hearing/...