This article offers insights into trends found in 74 empirical studies on teaching and learning
a foreign language (FL) in pre-primary schools in 25 countries. The emerging picture is like …

Abstract English as a foreign language (EFL) education has become increasingly ubiquitous
in Eastern Asian early childhood education (ECE) settings, but the studies on this …

The democratisation of early childhood education and care and the promotion of
plurilingualism across Europe have facilitated the implementation of educational projects …

The European Early Childhood Education Research Journal (EECERJ) defines its scope as
being 'multidisciplinary, embracing all related fields including psychology, sociology, child …

Preparing teachers for early language education is crucial for the quality of early childhood
education and care. In the recent decades, the role of teachers and, consequently …

Introducing English as a foreign language (FL) has become widespread in ECE in Europe,
typified by initiatives involving specialist teachers of English visiting settings for short periods …

Atendiendo a las lógicas de profesionalización y acompañamiento asumidas por los
formadores universitarios, este estudio explora la naturaleza de las expectativas …

Researchers in the field of teacher knowledge have been attempting to delineate
pedagogical content knowledge (PCK) in different subjects and different levels of education …

In this paper we present a survey-based study on multilingual practices in 47 ECEC (early
childhood education and care) centres, mainly in eastern Norway. Our main concern was to …

The aim of this article is to discuss teachers' perspectives on how the COVID-19 pandemic
has impacted the teaching of English to young learners (TEYL). We focused on one specific …