Teaching Young Multilingual Learners - Key Issues and New Insights

This Element provides an overview of research focusing on language teaching practices for young multilingual learners in primary classrooms in English-speaking contexts. The authors use the notion of culturally sustaining teaching practices to provide examples from pedagogy-informed research studies.

List of contents

1. Key Concepts in Teaching Young Multilingual Learners; 2. Practices for Teaching Young Multilingual Learners; 3. Practices in Action: Evidence and Examples from Pedagogy-informed Research Studies; 4. Implications for Teacher Education; References.

Summary

This Element provides an overview of research focusing on language teaching practices for young multilingual learners in primary classrooms in English-speaking contexts. The authors use the notion of culturally sustaining teaching practices to provide examples from pedagogy-informed research studies.

Foreword

This Element provides an overview of research focusing on language teaching practices for young multilingual learners in English-speaking primary classrooms.

Product details

• Authors: Loren Jones, Luciana C. de Oliveira, Luciana C. De (Virginia Commonwealth Uni Oliveira
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.01.2023
• EAN: 9781108928809
• ISBN: 978-1-108-92880-9
• No. of pages: 75
• Series: Elements in Language Teaching
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Education > School education, didactics, methodology; LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / General, LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Study & Teaching, Language acquisition, Language teaching theory & methods, Language teaching theory and methods, Bilingualism & multilingualism, Bilingualism and multilingualism