Winner of the Literacy Research Association's 2015 Edward B. Fry Book Award Immigration
is an ongoing, global phenomenon and schools and teachers in host countries must …

Both language and content are involved in all holistic, content-based approaches to
language education with young learners. This chapter argues that waiting until children are …

This chapter discusses the possibilities of enabling peer interaction through structured child-
initiated play in a low exposure, foreign language context. The research took place in a pre …

O presente trabalho analisa o papel de uma abordagem plural de sensibilização à
diversidade linguística na promoção da consciência fonológica de crianças em idade pré …

The aim of this paper was to examine the influence of picturebooks on children's physical
literacy (PL). Fostering PL in early childhood can promote a physically active lifestyle in …

This chapter provides different understanding of confusing outcomes, which could be of
interest for educational practices in bior multilingual contexts. In promoting bilingualism in …

“The difference between minorities and majorities isn't their size. A minority may be bigger
than a majority. What defines the majority is a model you have to conform to: the average …

This chapter presents a small empirical study, which introduced a wordless picturebook to
Portuguese pre-primary children who were learning English as a foreign language in a …

This chapter discusses the present state of Early Language Learning (ELL) policy in Cyprus
with regard to the national policy and how this is being implemented in pre-primary schools …

This paper begins by discussing the picturebook and its picture-word dynamic and follows
with a discussion of their relevance to teachers in a foreign language classroom. Thereafter …