Projects

This project, which is funded by the John Fell Fund (Oxford University Press), aims to develop and test an intervention for improving EAL children’s oral language skills in English through theatre – a medium that seems well-suited to developing oral language, but whose potential has not been evaluated to date. 

 

The project involves a systematic review of the literature on the effect of creative activities on oral language development; a steering workshop with teachers and researchers; the design of the theatre workshops in collaboration with drama facilitators; the piloting of the resulting drama-based intervention with Year 1-3 children; the collection and analysis of quantitative and qualitative data for evaluation purposes; and a knowledge exchange workshop to update the teachers and researchers who steered the project. 

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PI: Dr Faidra Faitaki | Co-I: Prof Victoria Murphy | RA: Dr Sophie Liggins