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Reading Influencer

Resource Type: 
etf
PID: 
etf:3338
Description: 

This project was a collaboration between English teachers, academic coaches and vocational staff to boost the reading confidence of GCSE English Language students using audio extracts. 

Taxonomy: 
Practitioner Research and Evidence Hub: 
Yes
Principal focus of the project: 

The focus of this project was exploring the theory that learners read better when listening at the same time. 

What is this about and what were the main findings: 

A Drama teacher and a Music teacher along with some student volunteers were recruited to record fiction extracts from previous GCSE papers - and some non-ficiton articles. The audios were then used during English lessons. The project reported that this approach had enhanced English teaching methodology, and had had a proven impact on student reading ages. 

Number of learner participants: 
100+
Number of staff participants: 
6-10
Number of organisation participants: 
1
Name(s) of authors: 

Northampton College

Name of associate programmes: 

OTLA 7

PREP Starred: 
PREP Starred