Research

Research in the Centre for Language, Literacy and Numeracy.

Projects

The key to oral language (lead: Julie Dockrell, funded by Heather van der Lely Foundation)
Empowering staff to enhance oral language in the early years (lead: Julie Dockrell, funded by the Nuffield Foundation)
Breaking into sign language: the role of input and individual differences (lead: Chloë Marshall, funded by the Leverhulme Trust)
Language-learning needs on school entry: profiling phonology, morphology and narrative (lead: Julie Dockrell and Emma Sumner, funded by the Heather van der Lely Foundation)
Teaching Grammar for writing (lead: Dominic Wyse, UCL Learning & Leadership, funded by the Nuffield Foundation)
Practice around Access Arrangements for Students with SpLDs (PASS) (co-leads: Emma Sumner and Catherine Antalek, funded by the Nuffield Foundation)

iRead: Personalised reading apps for Primary school children (lead: Asimina Vasalou, UCL Knowledge Lab, funded by a European H2020 grant)
Multilanguage acquisition across the lifespan (lead: Roberto Filippi, funded by the Leverhulme Trust)
Flexible Phonics (lead: Professor Robert Savage funded by Education Endowment Foundation)
Revision of the national curriculum for English
The Better Communication Research Project - Watch BCRP 1: What is the Better Communication Research Programme? (video)
Involvement in the COST action "An integrated and inclusive approach to language and literacy in Europe".
The Early Years Measures database