Researching Educational Practices, Teacher Education and Professional Development for Early Language Learning : Examples from Europe (Paperback)

Author biographies

Acknowledgements

Introduction

Sandie Mourao and Carolyn Leslie

Part 1: Researching Teacher Practices

Chapter 1. The transformative power of local language encounters: Implications for teacher education??

Malika Pedley, David Roxburgh, Lorna Anderson and Joanna McPake?

Chapter 2. An investigation into linguistically and culturally responsive practices in early childhood education in Iceland?

Hanna Ragnarsdottir?

Chapter 3. Teachers’ perceptions, classroom practices and needs in developing students’ FL literacy skill: A transnational study?

Mateja Dagarin Fojkar,?Katarzyna Brzosko-Barratt and Raquel Fernandez-Fernandez

Chapter 4. Mixed-age primary classroom foreign language teaching: Implications for teacher education?

Toma? Kos?

Chapter 5. Early English language learning: Exploring pedagogical practices in a pre-primary EFL class in Catalonia through systematic observation

Alexandra Vraciu and Elisabet Pladevall-Ballester

Part 2: Researching Teacher Education

Chapter 6. Exploring multi and translingual perspectives through dominant language constellation artefacts in teacher education: Shifting perspectives?

Nayr Correia Ibrahim?

Chapter 7. Preparing teachers for multilingualism in Norwegian early childhood education and care provision through student active learning methods???

Elena Tkachenko, Nina Gram Garmann and Anna Sara H. Romøren??

Chapter 8. Climbing the ladder of global citizenship: The discourses and practices of pre-service primary English teachers in Portugal?

Monica Lourenco?

Chapter 9. Linguistic landscapes as a resource in language teacher education?

Jana Roos and Howard Nicholas?

Chapter 10. Teaching-based master dissertations to support reflective practices when using story in early English language learning??

Annett Kaminski?

Chapter 11. In-service teacher education in English: Theorizing and critical reflection as tools for transforming teaching practices?

Ingebjørg Mellegard?

Part 3: Researching Teacher Education Curricula

Chapter 12. Professional learning competences and tasks in primary English teacher education curricula in Portugal?

Flavia Vieira, Sandie Mourao, Ana Isabel Andrade?and Ana Raquel Simoes?

Chapter 13. Language ideologies at play in early childhood teacher education: A study of syllabi and textbooks

Gunhild Tomter Alstad?

Chapter 14. Looking at different formats of professional development in the context of EFL teacher education in CLIL programmes: An exercise in reflective practice?

Ana Halbach??

Afterword

Index