The ECR Journey: At Crossroads of Becoming
On this 2nd ECR Annual Conference we continued to celebrate the ECR journeys and welcomed educational researchers and practitioners to join us in Leeds. This year’s conference was anchored on...
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Emily Oxley, Dr
Research Associate at National Institute of Teaching
Dr Emily Oxley is a Research Fellow in Evidence Synthesis at the National Institute of Teaching, specialising in initial teacher education and professional development. A former teacher of French and German, she completed her PhD at the University of Leeds in 2019, specialising in vocabulary acquisition for bilingual children. Since then, she has held post-PhD positions at the Universities of Leeds, Edinburgh and Glasgow. Her broad research interests are language education, literacy and reading.
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Children’s perspectives and experiences of reading for pleasure practices in the UK
Primary school curricula across the UK highlight the importance of reading for pleasure, for example: ‘The National Curriculum for England aims to ensure that all pupils: develop the habit of...
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