Calling Early Years teachers. Join us at Department of Education, University of Oxford for a day of learning around 'language supported practice and shared thinking'. Fully funded by the department and open to all-comers. bit.ly/OxfordEY

Had a wonderful first @OxDeaneryEdu Department of Education, University of Oxford event looking at sustainability education in schools, rounded off by a close encounter with bats! Brilliantly organised by Travis T. Fuchs (he/him) and Kim Polgreen 🇺🇦🍃💚🍃 hosted by St Anne's College and Wytham Woods

Just launched! New project exploring Year 7 students’ motivations for learning Chinese and European languages, supported by the Swire Chinese Language Foundation. Thanks to the students and teachers who have taken part so far. Watch this space for updates! bit.ly/43zHhPr

Will you be attending #BERA2023 from 12-14 September? Department of Education researchers will be presenting their research and facilitating workshops throughout the conference. See the full list of sessions ➡ buff.ly/3OP8cSl BERA

Massive thank you to the organizing committee and wonderful colleagues for a fabulous EuroSLA32 at University of Birmingham! Enjoyed presenting with Anna-Maria Ramezanzadeh on 'Imagining, believing and achieving' in L2 Arabic - looking forward to writing up the paper!

Approaching Tadpole Bridge at the end of a wonderful day's paddle on the Thames today 💚🩵💙

Professor Jo-Anne Baird's chapter in new book 'Teacher Education in Crisis' offers a personal reflection on policy negotiation in initial teacher education in England. Read the chapter available open-access now ➡ buff.ly/3PEmhU6 #edutwitter

Welcome to our new cohort of 22 PGCE linguists Department of Education, University of Oxford! Here is our whiteboard of welcome messages - we managed 22 different languages amongst the group!

🥳 It took 3 (!) years & 3 rounds of review by 3 (meticulous & insightful) reviewers, but our paper (w/ Victoria Murphy Department of Education, University of Oxford) on subject realisation & crosslinguistic transfer in Greek preschool learners of English is now published online in SLR: journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.11… 🔓

Delighted to share that our article 'Introducing MultilingProfiler: An adaptable tool for analysing the vocabulary in French, German, and Spanish texts' is out in System. See here for a discussion of issues in #LOTE #vocabulary profiling (units of counting, word lists, tools)⬇️

Are you a practising educator looking to pursue a post-graduate qualification with University of Oxford? We have eight Education Citizenship Scholarships available. Learn more and apply by 1 March 2024 ➡ buff.ly/3Q5b7a7 #scholarship #edutwitter

Languages teachers - come and do your part-time MSc with us Department of Education, University of Oxford! Research your own #MFL classroom and build your professional network. Scholarships available! bit.ly/OxfordMLT #mfltwitterati #edchat #edchatuk

Recently published with Dr Anna-Maria Ramezanzadeh - our scoping review maps the landscape of research on teaching and learning arabic as an additional language. With mamy thanks to QFI qfi.org/research/a-sco…

Arabic Research and Practice in Schools:  Register your interest to join us for a convening bridging research and practice! The form closes this Monday, April 8 @ 5 pm GMT/12 pm ET. 👉Learn more and register your interest: bit.ly/49ogE31. #TeachArabic #AL2

Are you a native/L1 speaker of British English? If so, you can help with a research project by one of our PhD students at Department of Education, University of Oxford. Listen to a recording of a word and select plausible spellings for it. 20 words in total - doesn't take long. oxfordeducation.eu.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_cO…

📢 Early Years colleagues! Join us on 16 July for a full-day workshop on Evidence-Based Practice in the Early Years, hosted by #OxEdDeanery, with Prof Kathy Sylva and Dr Sandra Mathers Tickets are now available, book your place now ➡ bit.ly/OxfordEY2024 #edchat

📢 Exciting news! We are creating a new centre for the learning and teaching of Chinese, thanks to a generous donation from John Swire & Sons. The centre underpins our ambitious plans to transform the study of Chinese across the UK. Read more ➡ education.ox.ac.uk/new-centre-und…

What is practitioner research? What makes it effective? Practitioner research offers unique insights into actual classroom dynamics, and research findings can be transformative within their educational contexts.

A warm multilingual welcome to Oxford to our new PGCE Modern Languages cohort!

A warm welcome to our new students on the MSc in Applied Linguistics and Second Language Acquisition (ALSLA) here at @oxforddeptofed.bsky.social! In our first session, we found out how many languages are spoken in the group - 20! (Read this post also at robertwoore.bsky.social)