Facing Diversity in Child Foreign Language Education

Book Overview

​What makes the difference in early foreign language education? Theoretical considerations.- Cognition and second language experience - broader considerations of bilingualism.- Trainability of foreign language aptitudes in children(state-of-the-art).- Relevance of local learning context and informal contact with English for heterogeneity in EELL.- An ethnographic study of reading skills in English in primary school.- EFL reading in young learners: The teacher's perspective.- Reading accuracy measure in screening for dyslexia in the EFL classroom.- Learning preferences of SEN children in an inclusive English classroom.- Working with Teachers and Young learners in Multilingual Classrooms: Introducing the Multilingual Approach to Diversity in Education (MADE).- Is strategy training necessary in L3 learning? - the study of communication strategies used by upper-primary school learners.- Assessment for learning, learning for all: a case study in the foreign language classroom.- A literature review on preparing preservice primary foreign language teachers for diversity via the practicum.- A Note on the Influence of Topic Prominence in Japanese on Japanese Beginner-level EFL Learners' Interlanguage: An Empirical Study.- Corpus-based evaluation of textbook content: A case of Russian language primary school textbooks for migrants.- A Multimodal Analysis of ELT Materials for Young Learners.- "Picture this!" - the educational value of illustrations in the process of teaching L2 to young learners.- Teachers' opinions on heterogenous classes: insights for EFL teacher education.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 3030660249
• ISBN13: 9783030660246
• Release Date: April 2022
• Publisher: Springer
• Length: 326 Pages
• Weight: 1.04 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.1" x 9.2"