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Following the lifting of Covid restrictions, members of the LARA Lab and Baby Lab had the chance to (finally!) catch up with each other in real life rather than through a dreaded zoom or teams meeting. Earlier this month, the

Last week, lab member Grace won a prize for her poster and presentation on educational apps! The poster was presented at the Doctoral School, to a wide audience of staff and students at Royal Holloway from lots of different departments.

One of the main focuses of Dr Jessie Ricketts and the LARA lab is orthographic facilitation, which is the idea that seeing the spelling of the word (orthography) helps to facilitate learning of the orthography, phonology and semantics of that

Jessie and colleagues recently published a paper that investigated whether newly learnt words were retained over time. The paper also discusses graded measures of vocabulary, which provide insight into the incremental nature of learning! Check out the poster for a quick summary. The paper

The last year has been a very strange and challenging time for all. The pandemic has impacted and will continue to impact everyone in a myriad of ways. The current changes in restrictions have given Dr Jessie Ricketts and the LARA

One of the key focuses of the LARA lab is looking at reading and language development in adolescence. What changes (or not). How much teenagers read (or not). Whether they are motivated (or not). Earlier this year, Jessie and colleagues

Today, Oxford University Press and the Centre for Education and Youth published an important new report on vocabulary across transition from primary to secondary school. To mark the report’s publication, Jessie was involved in a webinar launch. The report summarises

It has been a really exciting year this year with Grace Pocock and Jess Dyson starting their PhDs and Nicola Dawson becoming Dr Nicola Dawson and heading off to Oxford for a postdoc with Kate Nation. UGRAs Daisy Miller, Lucy

In celebration of World Book Day, Nicky Dawson has put together some thoughts on morphology…  Read the following sentence and try to fill in the gap: ‘This is a wug. Now there is another one. There are two of them.

As we celebrate world book day, we thought we would tell you about the LARA lab contributions to Royal Holloway Science Festival 2019 The LARA lab will have a stall at the Science Festival, where members of the lab will be

Dr. Jessie Ricketts and Megan Dixon (teacher, PhD student and director of literacy at the Aspirer Educational Trust) co-wrote an article for the Times Educational Supplement, which was published in November 2018. The article was called Going to Bat for

To find out more about what we’ve been up to this year, check out our LARA newsletter December 2018

Recently, Jessie reviewed Alex Quigley’s new book for the Times Educational Supplement. The book synthesises research on vocabulary and reading and integrates it with practical knowledge of schools and teaching. It highlights barriers to supporting these foundational processes in schools

Recently, we launched our new Nuffield-funded Reading and Vocabulary (RAV) project in London with teachers and other representatives from key stakeholder groups. Thanks to all for attending! The RAV project is led by Dr Laura Shapiro (Aston University), Professor Adrian

Dr Jessie Ricketts, the Director of the LARA lab, recently spoke to Jon Severs at the Times Educational Supplement about her work. You can listen to the podcast here In their conversation, Jessie and Jon talked widely about supporting vocabulary and

On Tuesday the 20th February we had an interesting lab meeting on how to create pirate plots in R, led by our wonderful PhD student Nicky. Pirate plots are a type of plot that show raw data, descriptive statistics, and

It has been a very exciting start to the year for the LARA lab, with a range of interesting visitors. In January we had a visit from former lab member Rosie McGuire. Rosie has obtained a competitive ESRC 1+3 studentship to

Yesterday was the final LARA lab meeting of this term. We were lucky to have a guest speaker in. Dr Danielle Colenbrander, who is a postdoc at the University of Bristol, gave a talk titled ‘A randomised controlled trial of morphological

Follow this link to Jessie’s new blog post about spelling and reading on the GL Assessment website: https://www.gl-assessment.co.uk/news-items/2017/the-relationship-between-word-reading-and-word-spelling-in-english/