Early Language Learning and Teacher Education

This volume is a very welcome addition to research in a much-neglected area: early language teacher education. As well as taking a truly international perspective, it includes chapters on bilingual education, TESOL, Modern Foreign Languages – areas of early language teacher education which are rarely found together, despite the synergies between them. Presenting thoughtful and innovative discussions of a range of key topics in the field, it is set to become essential reading for anyone involved in early language teacher education.

* Fiona Copland, University of Stirling, UK *

Early language learning and the policies associated with it have been introduced around the world, but there is still little known about teacher education in global contexts. This book addresses this need and brings together a group of major scholars who have done a brilliant job in each chapter. Highly recommended resource!

* Luciana C. de Oliveira, University of Miami, USA *

...this is a thought-provoking book that will be useful for researchers, teacher-educators wanting to go beyond focusing on how children learn in their training, and teachers who are interested in research. 

* Anna Hasper, TEYLT Worldwide, Issue 1, 2023 *

The book is coherent, contains sound pedagogical and theoretical reflections on a number of issues in primary English, and starts to break down barriers between disciplines, such as foreign language teaching and bilingualism. This is an important step forward considering the number of multilingual children in classrooms around the world whose multilingual voices are usually silenced. 

-- Nayr Ibrahim, Nord University, Norway * ELT Journal, 2020 *

This book is a very useful resource for university educators of future teachers and also education policy makers because of the clear overview provided about the varying ways in which English and other Modern languages are taught.

-- Alexandra Burke, Public Sector Educator * JALT Journal, 42.2, Nov 2020 *

[This] book is a valuable contribution to the field of pre and in service TEYL development. It will be of interest and assistance to many. A strength of the book is that it presents research on language teaching in several bilingual contexts.

-- Sharon Harvey, Auckland University of Technology, New Zealand * Language Teaching for Young Learners 3