The growing global trend of teaching and learning English as a foreign language at an ever younger age has resulted in a proliferation of a variety of programs, both formal and …
S Mourão - European Early Childhood Education Research …, 2021 - Taylor & Francis
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 …
S Mourão - The Routledge handbook of teaching English to …, 2018 - taylorfrancis.com
This chapter discusses English language education for three-to six-year-olds. It begins with an introduction to the terms and referents and a description of early childhood education and …
M Lourenço, AI Andrade, S Sá - Language, culture and curriculum, 2018 - Taylor & Francis
This paper shares the voices of six teachers regarding two language awareness projects carried out in one pre-primary and one primary school in Portugal. These projects present …
MT Fleta Guillén - Content and language integrated learning in Spanish …, 2019 - Springer
In recent years, the ever-increasing demand for English as a foreign/additional/second language (henceforth L2) in Spain has been shaped by the proliferation of bilingual …
MC Guerrini - Handbook of CLIL in Pre-primary Education, 2023 - Springer
Selecting materials and resources for pre-primary CLIL environments can be challenging. Research on learning material (Mehisto 2012; Maley 2013; Ioannou-Georgiou S & Pavlou …
F Faitaki, A Hessel, VA Murphy - Handbook of Early Language Education, 2020 - Springer
Internationally, an increasing number of children learn English as an additional language (EAL). Children with EAL grow up in an environment where English is the majority language …
M Lourenço, S Mourão - Language Issues: The ESOL Journal, 2019 - ingentaconnect.com
Foreign language education has had a long life in Portuguese schools. Indeed, by the end of the nineteenth century, Latin, French, English, German and Greek were already part of the …
S Mourão - Early instructed second language acquisition …, 2019 - degruyter.com
One of the main objectives of the European Union language education policy is to introduce two foreign languages (FLs) from a very early age. As a result, in the last 15 years, second or …