Multilingualism in the Early Years: Extending the limits of our world [Paperback]

Part 1. 1. My language/languages  2. Being bilingual  3. How language can define you  4. How we acquire our first and subsequent languages. Part 2  5. language/languages in the school curriculum  6. the pedagogical and social reasons for children being able to use their mother tongue or first language in their early learning  7. a brief history of minority education in the UK Part 3  8. Making sense of a new world  9. Understanding multimodality and translanguaging in early education  10. The threat of a good example: Celebrating and supporting young bilingual learners  11. Implications for practitioners  Part 4  12. Which children? Whose rights?  13. Performing culture  14. Language and identity  15. Preserving language an culture  16. Pedagogy, politics and poverty

 

[Has] an engaging tone and the reassuring sense that the author is a trustworthy authority on her subject. It ranges over a wide range of well-selected theoretical literature to introduce concepts related to language and language learning and is successful in mediating complex ideas for an audience which does not have the specialist knowledge to access the primary sources.

Jean Conteh, Senior Lecturer in Primary Education, University of Leeds

Written in a manner that makes it easy to read and is a good place to start for students or novice practitioners who are headed into the field of language teaching, specifically teaching English as another language to primary school students.

It has a great focus on younger children and a positive self-identity, how various cultural and linguistic backgrounds can be supported pedagogically keeping in mind the social and emotional development lc0