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Mixed early progress highlights need for sustained support for pupils with English as an additional language

16 Jul 2020

Newly-arrived pupils who speak English as an additional language (EAL) often make ‘mixed’ linguistic and academic progress during their first years...

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Draško Kašćelan

Postgraduate Pioneers 2017 #3

27 Oct 2017

With our Postgraduate Open Day fast-approaching (3 Nov), we introduce five PhD students who are already making waves at Cambridge.

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Speakers of two dialects may share cognitive advantage with speakers of two languages

27 Apr 2016

The ability of children to speak any two dialects – two closely related varieties of the same language – may confer the same cognitive advantages as...

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Bilingual street name sign in Bangor, North Wales

Opinion: There are also drawbacks to being bilingual

26 Apr 2016

Tomas Folke (Department of Psychology) and Julia Ouzia (Anglia Ruskin University) discuss the cognitive disadvantages that may be associated with...

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From Within a Book

Opinion: Speaking in tongues: the many benefits of bilingualism

04 Nov 2015

Dr Teresa Parodi (Department of Theoretical and Applied Linguistics) discusses the linguistic, social and cognitive advantages of speaking more than...

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Looking up in a dictionary

Unconscious language learning

03 Nov 2011

Unconscious learning could be the secret to speeding up learning a second language.

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