Researching Educational Practices, Teacher Education Professional - Examples From Europe

Recognising the urgent need for further progress in teacher education and preparation for the success of early language learning, this volume presents research on the education and professional development of teachers, exploring how they can foster multilingual spaces in the early years of formal education.

List of contents

Author biographies
Acknowledgements
Introduction
Sandie Mourão and Carolyn Leslie
Part 1: Researching Teacher Practices
Chapter 1. The transformative power of local language encounters: Implications for teacher education
Malika Pedley, David Roxburgh, Lorna Anderson and Joanna McPake
Chapter 2. An investigation into linguistically and culturally responsive practices in early childhood education in Iceland
Hanna Ragnarsdóttir
Chapter 3. Teachers' perceptions, classroom practices and needs in developing students' FL literacy skill: A transnational study
Mateja Dagarin Fojkar, Katarzyna Brzosko-Barratt and Raquel Fernández-Fernández
Chapter 4. Mixed-age primary classroom foreign language teaching: Implications for teacher education
Tomáš Kos
Chapter 5. Early English language learning: Exploring pedagogical practices in a pre-primary EFL class in Catalonia through systematic observation
Alexandra Vraciu and Elisabet Pladevall-Ballester
Part 2: Researching Teacher Education
Chapter 6. Exploring multi and translingual perspectives through dominant language constellation artefacts in teacher education: Shifting perspectives
Nayr Correia Ibrahim
Chapter 7. Preparing teachers for multilingualism in Norwegian early childhood education and care provision through student active learning methods
Elena Tkachenko, Nina Gram Garmann and Anna Sara H. Romøren
Chapter 8. Climbing the ladder of global citizenship: The discourses and practices of pre-service primary English teachers in Portugal
Mónica Lourenço
Chapter 9. Linguistic landscapes as a resource in language teacher education
Jana Roos and Howard Nicholas
Chapter 10. Teaching-based master dissertations to support reflective practices when using story in early English language learning
Annett Kaminski
Chapter 11. In-service teacher education in English: Theorizing and critical reflection as tools for transforming teaching practices
Ingebjørg Mellegård
Part 3: Researching Teacher Education Curricula
Chapter 12. Professional learning competences and tasks in primary English teacher education curricula in Portugal
Flávia Vieira, Sandie Mourão, Ana Isabel Andrade and Ana Raquel Simões
Chapter 13. Language ideologies at play in early childhood teacher education: A study of syllabi and textbooks
Gunhild Tomter Alstad
Chapter 14. Looking at different formats of professional development in the context of EFL teacher education in CLIL programmes: An exercise in reflective practice
Ana Halbach
Afterword
Index

About the author

Sandie Mourão is a research fellow at Nova University Lisbon, Portugal.
Carolyn Leslie is an Assistant Professor at Nova University Lisbon, Portugal.

Product details

• Authors: Sandie (Nova University Mourao
• Assisted by: Carolyn Leslie (Editor), Sandie Mourão (Editor)
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 27.10.2025
• EAN: 9781032266046
• ISBN: 978-1-0-3226604-6
• No. of pages: 272
• Series: Routledge Research in Language Education
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Education > Education system; EDUCATION / General, LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / General, Sociolinguistics, teacher training, Bilingualism & multilingualism, Pre-school & kindergarten, Multicultural education, Pre-school and kindergarten, Bilingualism and multilingualism, Educational strategies and policy, EDUCATION / Schools / Levels / Elementary