Anne Teravainen-Goff

National Literacy Trust

Learner engagement has gained increasing interest in recent years in general educational psychology and the field of language learning. However, challenges in defining and operationalising the concept have resulted in overlapping notions and large variation in its measurement, making it challenging to compare findings across studies (Fredricks & Mc...

Learner engagement has been the focus of a growing amount of research in recent years both in general educational psychology and the field of second language acquisition (SLA). However, while recent contributions on learner engagement in language classrooms have provided valuable insights, the field is still only at the early stages of understandin...

This report evaluates the impact of the fourth year of NewsWise – a free, cross-curricular news literacy programme for 9 to 11-year-olds across the UK.

This entry discusses leisure reading behavior in childhood. It shows that leisure reading has consistently been linked not only to reading outcomes but also to other educational, social, and emotional outcomes. It also shows that, while generally children aged 8–13 engage in positive leisure reading behavior, it decreases as children get older. Mor...

Mental wellbeing, reading and writing explores the relationship between children's mental wellbeing and their reading and writing enjoyment, attitudes and behaviours. The report is based on findings from our eight Annual Literacy Survey of 49,047 children and young people aged 8 to 18 in the UK. As this is the first time we have explored the link...

Literacy and life expectancy provides the first overview of the evidence linking literacy and life expectancy in England through the conduits of health and socioeconomic factors. It builds on the evidence outlined a decade ago in our Literacy Changes Lives report, where we established a relationship between literacy and life chances through the le...

This research review explores reframing and redefining what is meant by ‘reading well’ at age 11, looking in particular at cognitive reading skills, affective processes and reading behaviours. This paper looks at the proposed broadening of the definition and explores its current evidence base. The National Literacy Trust has prepared this report...

This report shows that the evidence around school library provision is patchy as there are no official figures. Yet, there is plenty of evidence that school libraries can be beneficial to the educational and personal outcomes of children and young people.