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Department of Education, University of Oxford @education.ox.ac.uk · 16/04/2026

Teachers and educators are invited to join us for a full-day workshop exploring the evidence around teaching children for whom English is an Additional Language (EAL). 📅 10 July ⌚ 9am - 5.15pm 📍 Department of Education Sign up now and secure an early bird ticket 👉 bit.ly/4cvov2w

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Dr Faidra Faitaki @faidra.bsky.social · 17/03/2026

We're almost a week away from ‘Playful Pedagogies: Critical Thinking, Creativity, Constructing Meaning’! 🧩 If you are a practitioner, researcher or student who is interested in finding out more about play-based pedagogies, join us at the Department of Education (@education.ox.ac.uk) on 25/03/2026!

we see the hands of a young child putting toy bees in toy beehive using a tool.

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Dr Faidra Faitaki @faidra.bsky.social · 28/03/2025

📣 Delighted that our article reporting the findings of a pilot study investigating the effectiveness of a novel oral language intervention conducted through the medium of #drama, has now been published #openaccess at First Language: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/... @oxforddeptofed.bsky.social 🥳

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Piloting a drama-based oral language intervention - Faidra Faitaki, Sophie Liggins, Victoria A. Murphy, 2025

Children’s oral language skills at the earliest stages of education are known to determine their success at school later on. Improving oral language skills is a...

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Dr. David Miller 🏳️‍🌈 @davidimiller.bsky.social · 09/12/2024

🚨🚨 Out TODAY in Psych Bulletin!! 🚨🚨 After 5 long years, the NSF meta-analysis I led on children's gender stereotypes about STEM and verbal abilities just came out today in Psych Bulletin!! In the words of great cultural critic Stefon, it has everything... doi.org/10.1037/bul0...

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a man says " and it has everything " in front of a world map

ALT: a man says " and it has everything " in front of a world map

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Dr Faidra Faitaki @faidra.bsky.social · 11/12/2024

Informative & thoughtful thread about international students' proficiency, university requirements, and academic attainment 👇🏼

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Leher Singh @lehersingh.bsky.social · 07/12/2024

Excited to share a new paper offering guidance for demographic reporting for authors, editors, and reviewers in developmental research. An enjoyable collaboration with the MB Demographics group! www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

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Tools of the Trade: A Guide to Sociodemographic Reporting for Researchers, Reviewers, and Editors

In recent years, psychological researchers have been heavily criticized for generalizing broadly from narrow samples, a concern that intersects with questions about the validity, reproducibility, r...

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Hamish Chalmers @hwc001.bsky.social · 01/10/2024

We have just launched two online, part time Postgraduate Diplomas at Oxford. One in English as an Additional language and the other in Early Childhood Education. Perfect for in service teachers wishing to gain formal qualifications in these areas. EAL: bit.ly/3Y5FceH ECE: bit.ly/4emVV35 #EduSky

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PGDip in English as an Additional Language | University of Oxford

About the courseThe PGDip in English as an Additional Language (EAL) is designed for education professionals working with multilingual learners in the national and international sectors. This

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Dr Faidra Faitaki @faidra.bsky.social · 24/09/2024

So happy to be speaking to @hwc001.bsky.social about our little drama-based oral language intervention pilot! To find out if using drama activities can help develop primary-school children's oral language, have a listen to the new episode of the Oxford Education Deanery Podcast! 🎧🎭🤓

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bergelsonlab @bergelsonlab.bsky.social · 13/12/2023

GOOD MORNING BLUESKY! Very excited about this new paper: www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2300671120 Key Q: what predicts how much young kids (👶)talk? How much 🗣 kids heard predicted how much 👶talked, but other factors, e.g. mom’s education, didn’t. #PsychSci #DevPsy 🗣💬 INCOMING SUMMARY🧵ALERT 1/14

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em 🐊 @emrem.bsky.social · 03/12/2023

I made a coloring sheet for some reading week de-stressing for my #Linguistics / composition students

Line drawing of a ribbon wrapped around a heart reading "Every language varies; every language changes; every language matters"

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Dr Faidra Faitaki @faidra.bsky.social · 05/12/2023

📢 Our paper (w/ the brilliant Hamish Chalmers & Victoria Murphy) reporting on a Priority Setting Partnership in which users of EAL research (teachers, support staff, parents) were asked to decide the Top 10 priorities for future research on EAL, is 🔓 & out now! Have a read & tell us your thoughts!👇🏼

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Setting research priorities for English as an Additional Language | John Benjamins

Abstract We report a priority setting partnership (PSP), which sought to establish the priorities for new research among research users (educators, parents, and learners) in the field of English as an...

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Jamie Castle @jamiecastle.bsky.social · 03/12/2023

I totally agree! And to add to that, learning science tells us that reducing stress, anxiety, and alienation is critical for learning. So anyone teaching in a way that heightens those negative emotions in students is not practicing learning science.

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Jin X. Goh | 吴晋勋 @jinxungoh.bsky.social · 29/11/2023

Censorship does happen in science. It's just not happening to the people who think they are being censored.

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Dr Faidra Faitaki @faidra.bsky.social · 26/11/2023

Chuffed to have co-presented our paper on the #Lex15, a new test for assessing productive #vocabulary in young (multilingual) children, at #LTF2023 organised by UKALTA at the British Council this morning! Impressed by all the interesting talks, the supportive crowd & thought-provoking discussions! 🤗

Dr Sophie Liggins introducing the Lex15.

Dr Faidra Faitaki explaining the importance of accurate vocabulary assessment in young learners.

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Rob Hartsuiker @roberthartsuiker.bsky.social · 21/11/2023

Structural priming = facilitation of sentence structure by recent exposure to that structure. Production & comprehension are hard to compare, as data types different: choices vs. RTs. We therefore used the MAZE task to gather both types of data in both modalities: www.tandfonline.com/eprint/ZFZXZ...

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Andrew Perfors @perfors.net · 16/11/2023

"The perception of rhythm in language" by Anne Cutler. It's short but you won't forget it :) Here's a blog post explaining why it's great. It contains a link to the paper. www.kith.org/words/2022/0...

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» Best linguistics paper ever: “The perception of rhythm in language”

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Bran[don] Papineau @branpap.bsky.social · 15/11/2023

New #linguistics paper out with Annie Holtz in Infant & Child Development: “Examining the female-talker default in experimental language acquisition research”! In this paper, we examine the practice of using women’s voices in stimuli designed to test children’s language abilities

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Examining the female‐talker default in experimental language acquisition research

Infant and Child Development: prenatal, childhood, adolescence, emerging adulthood is a premier developmental science journal for transparent and open research.

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PsyArXivBot @psyarxivbot.bsky.social · 11/11/2023

The linguistic elephant in scientific publishing: osf.io/5zxaf

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Dr Faidra Faitaki @faidra.bsky.social · 11/11/2023

Are you going to the #NALDIC31 conference? If so, catch the brilliant Dr Sophie Liggins presenting our poster on 'Developing Oral Language through Drama', to find out about the project we just completed! We look forward to your comments & questions! 🤗

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Hannah Mechtenberg @hannahmech.bsky.social · 09/11/2023

Hello, I have some new science! @emilymyers.bsky.social, Cristal Giorio, and @uconnlablab.bsky.social and I asked whether people expend more effort when listening to clear or casual speech by measuring the size of their pupils. A brief 🧵. Read the full paper here: journals.lww.com/ear-hearing/...

Plots showing the pupillary response over time. The baseline corrected pupillary response (pupil area) is plotted in arbitrary
units along the y axis. Time, in msec, is indicated along the x axis, with the 0 timepoint indicating the start of the 3000 msec silent period or masked period before target sentence onset. The pupil trace concludes 8000 msec later. The lefthand plot is the aggregate for all silent trials while the righthand window is the aggregate for all masked trials. Solid lines correspond to pupil responses to clearly spoken sentences and dashed lines to casually spoken sentences. Drawn windows show where the pre-target windows (red boxes; analyzed post hoc) and the target sentence (purple boxes) windows fit in the larger pupillary response.

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