Linguistic Challenges of the Transition

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Linguistic Challenges of the Transition

@LeedsTransition

The linguistic challenges of the transition from primary to secondary school. An @ESRC funded project led by @Education_Leeds at @UniversityLeeds

Leeds, England Katılım Temmuz 2018
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Alice Deignan
Alice Deignan@alicedeignan·
Michael Inglis and I have contributed a blog to this series, about the language of science education at the primary-secondary transition. We write about some findings from our @ESRC project @LeedsTransition, based at @Education_Leeds .
BERA@BERANews

New BERA blog series, a special issue focusing on language and literacy, with an editorial by @Barbara134134 @UlsterEducation and six blogs by authors including @DrIanCollen @karen_forbes @Nic_Morea @alicedeignan @Dominic_Wyse @AliceJBradbury bera.ac.uk/blog-series/sp…

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Helen Amass
Helen Amass@Helen_Amass·
Is there a "slump" in literacy and vocabulary between Year 6 and 7? @ricketts_lara and colleagues decided to investigate, and here's what they found... tes.com/magazine/teach…
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Alice Deignan
Alice Deignan@alicedeignan·
Speaking at my first in-person conference since March 2020 tomorrow: #rED21 session 4, with @Marcusjones900 on our findings about science vocabulary at KS2 and KS3
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Alice Deignan
Alice Deignan@alicedeignan·
I'm looking forward to this! I'll be talking about our project in general and then the challenges presented by apparently straightforward vocabulary in Key Stage 3, developing from work by myself and @lovermob.
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Dr Robbie Love
Dr Robbie Love@lovermob·
It was great to present some findings about the lexical / grammatical complexity of teacher talk as part of the @LeedsTransition yesterday with @alicedeignan for @EnglishAston’s ‘Through the Language Lens’ seminar series. Thanks to all who attended. Recording available soon!
BAAL LKALE@baal_lkale

@lovermob & @alicedeignan exploring reasons for challenges faced by pupils during transition from primary to secondary from linguistic perspective

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An excellent blog-post by Gary Chambers, one of the co-investigators of this project, about year 7 students' views about challenging words and phrases they encounter in Maths, English, Geography, History and Sciences.
Centre for Language Education Research@CLER_Leeds

‘Posh words’, ‘nerdy words’: what students say about language! New research insights by CLER researchers on @LeedsTransition project, led by @alicedeignan. Check out this blog by Gary Chambers. cler.leeds.ac.uk/linguistic-enc…

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@lovermob will present some findings based on our @LeedsTransition project. Follow the instructions www2.aston.ac.uk/lss/research/l… to sign up for this talk.
Dr Robbie Love@lovermob

Looking forward to contributing to this fab series of talks @EnglishAston. I’ll be sharing ongoing work with @Education_Leeds on the @LeedsTransition project, exploring how teacher talk differs between primary and secondary school 📚

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Dr Robbie Love
Dr Robbie Love@lovermob·
We have a paper for the @LeedsTransition project accepted for @icame41 in Heidelberg! “Teacher talk and the school transition”, exploring our spoken corpus, with colleagues @alicedeignan, @duygucandarli and Gary Chambers
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Dr Robbie Love
Dr Robbie Love@lovermob·
Just one week until the deadline for our Research Fellow in Corpus Linguistics post @UniversityLeeds, working on the @LeedsTransition project to explore the differences in academic language between primary and secondary school.
Dr Robbie Love@lovermob

JOB: Research Fellow in Corpus Linguistics. We are looking for a postdoctoral researcher to join the @LeedsTransition project. Closing date: Wednesday 4th December. Please RT to spread the word! jobs.leeds.ac.uk/vacancy.aspx?r…

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Centre for Academic Writing
To warm us up, the first question is, “How do you get started when you need to write a paper?” Remember to use the tags #AcWriMo #CamCov and get talking in the thread below :D @CUPAcademic
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