Guest Blog: Learning to Read in Another Language

Nearly a fifth of England’s primary school population is made up of children who have English as an Additional Language (EAL) – children with a home language that isn’t English, yet who are being educated in England through the medium of the English language. At ReadOxford, we are often asked about EAL. We asked Oxford’s Professor Victoria Murphy, an expert in EAL, to tell us more.

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Book Review: Reading Development and Teaching

When I heard that Morag Stuart and Rhona Stainthorp were writing a book about reading development and teaching, I immediately had high expectations. To say I’m not disappointed is an understatement. This is a fabulous book that should be read by everyone interested in the processes involved in learning to read and how these can be best fostered in the classroom.

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What can Eye Movements tell us about Reading?

 

If you think about what your eyes are doing as you read this blog, you probably imagine them moving in a smooth line from left to right, line by line. You might occasionally decide to go back to re-read something. In fact, your eyes are doing something quite different. They’re moving in a series of jumps called saccades and in between the saccades are pauses, called fixations. Psychologists have learned a lot about reading by measuring the pattern of fixations and saccades as people read.

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