Oxford Children's Language conducts research, shares insights, and supports teachers with advancing students' language and literacy development.
Language is at the heart of education, and we are committed to understanding and closing the Word Gap and ensuring young people have all the words they need to thrive at home, in school, and beyond.
NEW REPORT: Download our newest report, How Schools are Closing the Word Gap: The Oxford Language Report 2021-22 for a series of case studies from teachers packed with ideas and suggestions for narrowing the Word Gap.
The Oxford Children's Language Corpus is the biggest living database of children's reading and writing in English. This unique insight into the words children write and read, allows us to:
Track the development of new vocabulary and the fascinating and creative use of words by children
Understand the language children need to acquire at each step of their education and how to support them in doing that
Support teachers and educators with the very best publishing and resources, informed by this insight
We partner with leading experts to further our collective understanding of children's language and share insights, advice and practical classroom support to help the education community in developing the language and literacy skills of our young people.