DELTEA

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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Recent DELTEA work

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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Expertise

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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Expertise

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

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