This website is for teachers and speech and language therapists who want to support new word learning in secondary schools. It covers information about:
- The rationale for supporting teenagers to learn new words
- How secondary school students learn words
- Research in this area
- Our project which aimed to support small groups of teenagers to learn new words. This project is written up in an article here: http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/1460-6984.12309/full (early view in the International Journal of Language and Communication Disorders).
Supporting new word learning in secondary schools 