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Reading is one of life’s profound joys. According to reading expert Maryanne Wolf, reading changes the very structure of our brain and neural pathways; the act allows us to go beyond our own...
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From 26 June until early November 1917 2nd Lt Wilfred Owen of the Manchester Regiment convalesced at Craiglockhart War Hospital, Edinburgh. There is limited focus on Owen’s time in Scotland, but...
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In November 2017 the Times Educational Supplement (TES) published an article under the headline ‘Teaching grammar does not improve children's writing ability, research finds’ (Bloom 2017)....
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Online registration has now closed. If you want to attend this event, please email events@bera.ac.uk for details of how to register onsite. Aimed at researchers, doctoral students,...
This blog considers something that we all share – memories of reading literature – but its purpose is to promote and defend the place of egalitarian approaches to literature teaching in...
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As the dust begins to settle on recent curriculum and examination reform in English secondary education, we invite you to a roundtable event to discuss the after-effects on the teaching of...
RESEARCH SEMINAR – DONGBO ZHANG This presentation will discuss the development of reading abilities from cross-linguistic perspectives. Print represents spoken language, which is a universal...
RESEARCH SEMINAR – Andy Goodwyn This paper reports on a study that explored the ways English and literacy educators seek to find a balance between external expectations, contemporary pressures,...
The English in Education SIG held its first research seminar on 15 February – an excellent occasion featuring Dr Simon Gibbons of UCL. Simon’s research has focussed on the history of English...
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RESEARCH SEMINAR – John Gordon Most people remember ‘reading round the class’. Typically, discussion develops as classes share a book together, students elaborating responses collectively...
Research Seminar - Simon Gibbons In this seminar Simon will draw on two related research projects, linked by a focus on the history of the development of English teaching, curriculum and...
The English in Education SIG is a forum for researchers to investigate what is a broad and complex area of knowledge: our starting point is the school subject of English, but we embrace many...