2024 was another great year filled with fascinating research.

Over the course of this year, I’ve written a few posts about some of it:

• How to Externalize Internal Language
• Research Highlight 3: The Reading Profiles of English Learners
• Research Highlight 4: Structuring Classroom Learning for Student Success and Agency
• A speculative series (7 posts so far) on AI, LLMs, and Language!
• Research Highlight 5: Learning In a New Language Takes Effort

Last year, I began a tradition that seems worth maintaining: reviewing all the sundry research that has come across my radar over the course of 2024.

This has been a great year for education research. I thought it could be fun to review some of what has come across my own limited radar over the course of 2023.

The method I used to create this wrap-up was to go back through my Twitter timeline starting in January, and pull all research related tweets into a doc. I then began sorting those by theme and ended up with several high-level buckets, with further sub-themes within and across those buckets. Note that I didn’t also go through my Mastodon nor Bluesky feeds, as this was time-consuming enough!

The rough big ticket research items I ended up with were:

• Multilinguals and multilingualism
• Reading
• Morphology
• The influence of physical or cultural environment
• The content of teaching and learning
• The precedence of academic skills over soft skills
• Brain research and Artificial Neural Networks