Preschool Bilingual Education Agency in Interactions Between Children, Teachers, and Parents

This volume provides an up-to-date collection of key aspects related to current preschool bilingual education research from a socio-linguistic perspective. The focus is on preschool bilingual education in multilingual Europe, which is characterized by diverse language models and children's linguistic backgrounds. The book explores the contemporary perspectives on early bilingual education in light of the threefold theoretical framework of child's, teachers', and parents' agencies in interaction in preschool bilingual education. Five significant theoretical concepts are promoted in this volume: the ecology of language learning, an educational partnership for bilingualism, a notion of agency in early language development and education, language-conducive contexts, and language-conducive strategies. The volume examines preschool bilingual education as embedded in specific socio-cultural contexts on the one hand and highlights its universal features on the other. The bookis a fundamental read for scholars and students of second language teaching, preschool education, and bilingual education in multilingual and multicultural societies.

Summary

This volume provides an up-to-date collection of key aspects related to current preschool bilingual education research from a socio-linguistic perspective. The focus is on preschool bilingual education in multilingual Europe, which is characterized by diverse language models and children's linguistic backgrounds. The book explores the contemporary perspectives on early bilingual education in light of
the threefold theoretical framework of child's, teachers', and parents' agencies in interaction in preschool bilingual education
. Five significant theoretical concepts are promoted in this volume:
the ecology of language learning, an educational partnership for bilingualism, a notion of agency in early language development and education, language-conducive contexts, and language-conducive strategies.
The volume examines preschool bilingual education as embedded in specific socio-cultural contexts on the one hand and highlights its universal features on the other. The bookis a fundamental read for scholars and students of second language teaching, preschool education, and bilingual education in multilingual and multicultural societies.

Product details

• Assisted by: Mila Schwartz (Editor), Mil Schwartz (Editor)
• Publisher: Springer, Berlin
• Content: Book
• Product form: Paperback / Softback
• Publication date: 01.01.2018
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Education > Kindergarten and pre-school education
• EAN: 9783030084042
• ISBN: 978-3-0-3008404-2
• Pages: 365
• Illustrations: XVI, 365 p. 10 illus.
• Dimensions (packing): 15.5 x 23.5 x 2 cm
• Weight (packing): 587 g
• Series: Multilingual Education
• Subjects: Fremdsprachenerwerb, Fremdsprachendidaktik, B, Bildungsstrategien und -politik, Educational Policy, Education, Zweisprachigkeit und Mehrsprachigkeit, Multilingualism, Educational strategies & policy, Language Education, Child development, Educational Policy and Politics, Education and state, Language and education, Early Childhood Education, Language teaching & learning, Bilingualism & multilingualism, early childhood bilingual development