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 …

The study explores the practices of inclusive educational leadership of local policy makers in
a city with a high level of linguistic and cultural diversity (LCD), during a process of policy …

Increasing linguistic diversity creates a need to construct early learning environments as
spaces where children's whole multilingual repertoires are represented. The purpose of …

This paper explores the dynamic and situated nature of language education policy in an
Early Childhood Education and Care (ECEC) centre through the lens of researcher-child …

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 …

Developing proficiency in the language (s) spoken in any given society is crucial for the
inclusion and attainment of children in that society. With an enrolment rate in Norwegian …

Programs of multilingual education in Early Childhood Education and Care (ECEC) are
promising because they contribute to the development of young children's language and …

Denna studie syftar till att undersöka användningen av flera språk i narrativ lek och hur
förskolläraren stöttar flerspråkiga barns deltagande i dessa aktiviteter. Gemensamma lekar …

This special issue sprang from the guest editors'(henceforth 'our/we/us') personal interest in
advancing the interdisciplinary field of examining Nordic linguistic diversity in early …

Language awareness and multilingualism in early childhood education has received much
attention in recent years. The aim of this article is to shed light on challenges and tensions in …