Innovative Practices in Early English Language Education

“As plurilingual education continues to expand around the globe, early English language education has gained considerable traction across contexts, yet, it has been scantily researched. This volume is a solid response to this niche as it brings together educators at the potent nexus between research...

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Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Valente, David (Editor), Xerri, Daniel (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Cham Palgrave Macmillan 2022, 2022
Edition:1st ed. 2022
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Collection: Springer eBooks 2005- - Collection details see MPG.ReNa
Table of Contents:
  • 1. Introduction: confluence, connections and a call to action in early English education
  • 2. Integrating language learning into education in the primary English classroom
  • 3. Implementing agency-based approaches in upper-primary English language education
  • 4. Developing intercultural competence in early years and primary ELT
  • 5. Enriching early years English language education with translanguaging
  • 6. Developing primary English learners’ visual literacy for a multimodal world
  • 7. Fostering digital literacies in primary English language education
  • 8. Reimagining picturebook pedagogy for online primary English language education
  • 9. Building in assessment for learning to existing primary ELT practice
  • 10. Expanding the role of self-assessment: From assessing to learning English
  • 11. Embedding ELT within early childhood teacher education
  • 12. Educating early years and primary English language teachers multilingually
  • 13. Scaffolding in-depth learning: picturebooks for intercultural citizenship in primary English teacher education
  • 14. Mainstreaming metacognitive practices in primary English teacher education programmes
  • 15. Incorporating pragmatics into primary English language teacher education