University of Murcia

But it's also what makes writing such a powerful place to learn.

Rosa Manchón at the University of Murcia has argued that writing has real language learning potential because the child has time and because the text stays visible.

Writing invites her or him to notice gaps, test their hypotheses about how English works, and reflect on language.

So the question isn't whether written errors matter.

Two different jobs.

and closer to home there is some wonderful research from Spain with children very much like ours, I mean native Spanish children.

Coyle and Roca de Larios at the University of Murcia work with EFL children aged 11 and 12.

Writing in pairs.

And I want you to understand exactly what they did and what the results were.

So this was an Italian study done by researchers from three different Italian universities, the University of Padua, the University of Murcia, and the University of Verona.

They took 14 overweight females with a clinical diagnosis of PCOS.

And they put them on a specific diet.

Now, let's look in this study, and let's talk about this, and I want you to understand exactly what they did and what the results were.

So this was an Italian study done by researchers from three different Italian universities, the University of Padua, the University of, uh, Murcia, and the University of Verona.

They took 14 overweight females with a clinical diagnosis of PCOS, and they put them on a specific diet.

Now, they call this diet a Mediterranean ketogenic diet.