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May 16, 2024
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Apr. 29, 2024 Researchers tested a research-based intervention with English learners with math difficulty. The intervention proved to boost comprehension and help students synthesize and visualize information, ...
Mar. 6, 2024 About one-third of autistic people are unable to communicate using speech, and most are never provided an effective alternative. However, a new study suggests that many of these individuals are literate, raising the possibility that they could learn ...
Mar. 1, 2024 Are genetic factors underlying children's language development linked to later-life outcomes? In a genome-wide analysis, an international research team found genetic associations between children's ...
Jan. 22, 2024 No matter how well children are prepared for kindergarten, their transition to the classroom during the first few months plays a key role in their success, a new study ...
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Jan. 3, 2024 Sentences with greater linguistic complexity are most likely to fire up a key brain language processing center, according to a study that employed an artificial language ...
Nov. 27, 2023 New research has shown that extra practice in blending printed letter sounds can help struggling beginner readers (age 4-5) learn to ...
Oct. 19, 2023 Grouping English learners together in classrooms, a longstanding practice in schools, has no impact -- positive or negative -- on reading development ...
Oct. 17, 2023 A new study has examined the role of several cognitive functions in young students learning to write English, their second language. The study ...
Aug. 28, 2023 The UK's brightest pupils' chances of getting top GCSE grades are actually lower in grammar schools than in comprehensives, according to a major new ...
Aug. 23, 2023 An understanding of how words can be broken down into smaller units of meaning plays a key role when deaf and hard of hearing children learn to read, ...
Apr. 18, 2023 A new study investigates where toddlers look when they learn new words. It finds that children with larger vocabularies looked quickly towards objects when learning new words. Meanwhile, children who ...
Nov. 16, 2022 Neuroscientists find that brain signatures of reading difficulties in students from lower socioeconomic backgrounds are, on average, different from those of students from higher socioeconomic ...
Oct. 21, 2022 An innovative program to support children with reading difficulties helped them make significant progress when used online, new analysis ...
Apr. 5, 2022 Researchers report that two seemingly opposing theories of language processing are both correct. The study shows that greater left-brain asymmetry can predict both better performance and average ...
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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 ...
Learning Through ‘guided’ Play Can Be as Effective as Adult-Led Instruction Up to at Least Age Eight
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 ...
Jan. 10, 2022 Writing evolves to become simpler and more efficient, according to a new study based on the analysis of an isolated West African writing ...
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 ...
Income Inequality Can Harm Children’s Achievement in Maths – but Not Reading, 27-Year Study Suggests
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 ...
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- Income Inequality Can Harm Children’s Achievement in Maths – but Not Reading, 27-Year Study Suggests