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. We will also engage with wider education stakeholders including school leadership and policymakers to present our findings on teacher professional learning and the benefits of languages education. 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
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)
- FL literacy
- Integrated FL literacy instruction including phonics and strategies
- Digital 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.
- 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