Nov. 17, 2022 A study has found that although there were steep learning losses in reading for elementary school students during the COVID-19 pandemic, in-person learning opportunities helped some of those students ...
Oct. 26, 2022 Texts used in second language (L2) classrooms have traditionally been simplified manually. With recent technological advances, text can be simplified automatically through artificial ...
June 8, 2022 Children who move while learning sounds of letters significantly improve their ability to recognize individual letter ...
May 23, 2022 A new report argues that efforts to increase girls' participation in education in different parts of Africa should assess the detrimental effect teaching in English is having on ...
Apr. 11, 2022 A new study finds that children can develop key reading skills in a virtual classroom with other ...
Mar. 18, 2022 An earlier study had raised doubts about the effectiveness of learning English in the first grade. Now, researchers have observed that it improves language performance over an extended period of ...
Jan. 12, 2022 Teaching younger children through 'guided' play supports key aspects of their learning and development at least as well - and sometimes better - than the traditional direct instruction they ...
Nov. 11, 2021 Even when emoji are used to substitute for words, we still understand the sentence. But how does that work? Do we interpret an emoji primarily as an image or as a word? To find out, a research team ...
Nov. 11, 2021 Young people who consider themselves 'multilingual' tend to perform better across a wide range of subjects at school, regardless of whether they are actually fluent in another language, new ...
Oct. 5, 2021 Inequalities in income affect how well children do in maths -- but not reading, the most comprehensive study of its kind has ...
Sep. 29, 2021 A new study has found that a child's reading speed can be improved by simply increasing the space between letters within a piece of text. The study discovered that text with increased space ...
Sep. 9, 2021 Neuroscientists present new findings on how the motor cortex can help learn foreign vocabulary more quickly. The new data suggests that learning techniques that involve the performance of gestures ...
July 8, 2021 Though writing by hand is increasingly being eclipsed by the ease of computers, a new study finds we shouldn't be so quick to throw away the pencils and paper: handwriting helps people learn ...
June 10, 2021 Children with reading and writing difficulties who are presented with text on screens with flickering white noise both read better and remember what they have read better, according to a ...
June 3, 2021 A new study shows the combination of two early reading programs had positive effects on preschool students entering ...
May 12, 2021 Researchers have developed a computer font that adapts its appearance based on the user's interaction with the text. ''AdaptiFont'' measures a user's reading speed and ...
Apr. 7, 2021 School-based interventions that target students with, or at risk of, academic difficulties in kindergarten to grade 6 have positive effects on reading and mathematics, according to a new ...
Apr. 1, 2021 Multilingual people have trained their brains to learn languages, making it easier to acquire more new languages after mastering a second or third. In addition to demystifying the seemingly herculean ...
Mar. 30, 2021 Babies can recognise combinations of words even before they have uttered their first word, a study suggests, challenging ideas of how children learn language. Assessments in 11-12 month-olds show ...
Mar. 30, 2021 Researchers have developed a model to help identify risk factors for reading difficulties in children before kindergarten ...