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 ...
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 ...
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 3, 2021 — A new study shows the combination of two early reading programs had positive effects on preschool students entering ...
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 ...
Mar. 30, 2021 — Researchers have developed a model to help identify risk factors for reading difficulties in children before kindergarten ...
Mar. 26, 2021 — A study with first-time learners of Japanese has measured how brain activity changes after just a few months of studying a new language. The results show that acquiring a new language initially ...
Mar. 19, 2021 — A combined brain-scanning and behavior study has explored dyslexia in 7 & 8-year-old children learning how to read. Dyslexic youngsters were shown to have different activation in the left ...
Mar. 16, 2021 — A new study shows that the more people read any kind of fiction the better their language skills are likely to be. Researchers found that people who enjoyed reading fiction for leisure and who ...
Mar. 15, 2021 — Increased internet-access spending by Texas public schools improved academic performance but also led to more disciplinary problems among students, a study of 9,000 schools ...
Mar. 11, 2021 — These findings clearly demonstrate how the cooperative areas of the brain responsible for reading skill are also at work during apparently unrelated activities, such as multiplication, suggest that ...
Feb. 27, 2021 — When it comes to learning to read, new research suggests that explicit instruction -- a phonics teaching method in which the relationship between sound and spelling is taught directly and ...
Feb. 5, 2021 — A study expands validation evidence for a new screening tool that directly engages preschool-age children during clinic visits to assess their early literacy skills. The tool has the potential to ...
