What is DELTEA?
DELTEA is a research project investigating foreign language (FL) learning and teaching in UK primary schools. We are a multidisciplinary group of academics based at the Universities of Southampton and Reading conducting three phases of research: 1) a programme of free, online teacher education, 2) an intervention in schools using both a FL phonics app and digital stories, and 3) a Massive Online Open Course (MOOC) to scale up the professional development to include a wider pool of teachers and contexts. Watch our video to find out more!
Free, online teacher education
Phonics app for FL classes
Digital literacy resources
Get involved!
If you are a primary school language teacher, tell us about the challenges and opportunities here.
Want to hear more about what we’re working on? Contact us: DELTEA@soton.ac.uk
Meet the DELTEA team
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Dr Alison Porter
(University of Southampton)
- Young language learning
- FL literacy including phonics
- Teacher learning
- Taught in KS2 for 10 years
- Designing digital professional development content on a fortnightly basis
- Preparing teachers to enter the first phase of classroom research which commences in June
- Monitoring bi-weekly engagement metrics to support teacher involvement
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Recent DELTEA work
Professor Suzanne Graham
(University of Reading)
- FL literacy
- Comprehension strategies
- Self-regulation
- Language learning motivation
- Twenty-three years’ experience as a language teacher educator and trainer
- Choosing and modifying materials for digital storytelling
- Working with Alison to create the teacher DPD materials for Canvas
- Thinking ahead about how to use literacy activities to develop learners’ creativity and empathy
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Recent DELTEA work
Professor Kate Borthwick
(University of Southampton)
- Digital education for language teaching
- Digital tools for research purposes
- Design and development of the DELTEA Digital Professional Development course
- Technical and pedagogical advice to project team on digital tools for teaching
- Advice to project team on using digital tools to collect research data
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Recent DELTEA work
Andrew Davey
(University of Southampton)
- Learning technology
- Elearning development
- Online learning frameworks
- Learning object development
- Technical facilitation and support
- Tool troubleshooting
- Data gathering
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Recent DELTEA work
Travis Ralph-Donaldson
(Director of Niter LTD.)
- AI (audio visual speech recognition)
- Gamification
- Mobile app development
- FL teaching
- Real-time AI prosody feedback for intonation, stress, and articulation.
- Pronunciation games, where students modulate their voice to control on-screen characters.
- Teacher control panel to monitor students’ engagement and progress.
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Expertise
Recent DELTEA work
Dr James Turner
(University of Southampton)
- Expertise in FL speech learning
- Phonetics
- Spelling-sound links (phonics)
- Sounds and spellings to analyse in the DELTEA phonics app
- Digitizing linguistic tests
- Recording audios for digital story telling
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Expertise
Recent DELTEA work
Dr Anthony Zhang
(University of Reading)
- Second language vocabulary learning
- Creativity
- Eye-tracking
- Working with Suzanne to plan our exploration of how learners engage with digital stories
- Collaborating with the project team on decisions about some of the tools we will use with teachers and learners
Contact us
For further information regarding DELTEA please contact: DELTEA@soton.ac.uk