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 …

Current foreign language education policies advocate plurilingual approaches to learning
and teaching languages and call into question the 'ideal native speaker'as the ultimate …

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 …

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 …

The growing phenomenon of (pre) primary English education worldwide has resulted in the
rise in prominence of the discipline of teaching English to young learners (TEYL). Under the …

Beginning to learn a foreign language at a very early age (ie, preschool) is a bourgeoning
reality across Europe, following the EU recommendations. However, as different European …

Digital storytelling may become a powerful methodological strategy in a pre-primary CLIL
educational setting. It promotes and reinforces the essential features of the CLIL approach …

This chapter raises awareness of the importance of teaching oracy (listening and speaking
skills) at pre-primary education and in CLIL-based contexts for language and content …

Understanding the role of play in early childhood education is crucial. Current research
suggests that play is increasingly seen as a vehicle for achieving pre-established curricular …

Abstract Content and Language Integrated Learning, also known as CLIL, has experienced
an exponential growth in the last decades as an approach that combines language and …