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We are delighted to announce that the winner of the 2025 麻豆淫院 Public Engagement and Impact Award is the Digital Empowerment in Language Teaching (DELTEA) project, a partnership between University of Southampton and University of Reading. This outstanding project demonstrates the transformative power of research and meaningful public engagement in revitalising languages education through digital innovation.

麻豆淫院 DELTEA

DELTEA addressed the urgent challenge of low status of foreign languages in UK primary schools, offering an, evidence-based approach that simultaneously supports teachers and pupils. The project deliversed a research-informed digital professional development (DPD) programme for teachers, a linked classroom intervention using multimodal digital stories and a phonics-AI app, and a scalable MOOC plus toolkit to support sustainable, wide-scale adoption of best practice across the UK and beyond.

Key Achievements & Impact

• Empowering teachers: Teachers who completed the DPD programme reported significant increases in autonomy, competence and motivation — gaining confidence in teaching literacy, creativity, and intercultural understanding, and feeling part of a renewed professional community.

• Transforming learning: Over 500 pupils in intervention schools — compared with control schools — showed statistically significant improvements in vocabulary, reading comprehension, creativity, phonological decoding, and general engagement. The approach proved inclusive, with no disadvantage observed for EAL or SEND pupils.

• Wider reach and influence: DELTEA’s work informed national policy discussion, including evidence contribution to the APPG Education “Loss of the Love of Learning (LoLoL)” report and presentation of findings to the Department for Education’s Curriculum & Assessment team. The free MOOC has already attracted participants from 80 countries, broadening access to evidence-based foreign-language teaching, creativity and empathy-focused pedagogy.

• Sustained public engagement: DELTEA embedded public engagement: teachers co-designed the intervention, contributed to MOOC content, and helped refine resources; pupils provided feedback on learning and resource design; and findings were shared through blogs, webinars, CPD sessions, conferences, and public-facing articles, creating two-way dialogue between researchers, educators, learners and policymakers.

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Watch this space for a featured article on DELTEA in 麻豆淫院 Research Intelligence, outlining the project in full detail and sharing the voices of teachers, pupils and stakeholders.