Preschool bilingual education : agency in interactions between children, teachers, and parents / Mila Schwartz, editor.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Schwartz, Mila, editor.

Series:

Multilingual education ; v. 25.

Multilingual education ; volume 25

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Education, Bilingual.

Education, Preschool.

Second language acquisition.

Physical Description:

xvi, 365 pages ; 25 cm.

Place of Publication:

Cham, Switzerland : Springer, [2018]

Contents:

Preschool bilingual education : agency in interactions between children, teachers, and parents

Part I. Teachers' challenges in navigating bilingual spaces in their classrooms and practical decisions. Separating the languages in a bilingual preschool : to do or not to do? ; To mix languages or not? Preschool bilingual education in Malta ; Whose challenge is it? Learners and teachers of English in Hungarian preschool contexts

Part II. Creating language-conducive contexts to engage children in language learning. Longing for quality : experiences of Finnish-Russian bilingual kindergarten in Finland ; Dynamics in interaction in bilingual team teaching : examples from a Finnish preschool classroom ; The role of early childhood education in revitalizing a minoritized language in an unsupportive policy context : the Galician case ; EFL teachers' reflections on their teaching practice in Spanish preschools : a focus on motivation ; Teachers' beliefs and practices in creating multilingual spaces : the case of English teaching in Norwegian early childhood education ; Scaffolding discourse skills in pre-primary L2 classrooms

Part III. Children as language experts and models. Play and peer interaction in a low-exposure foreign language-learning programme ; The role of language experts in novices' language acquisition and socialization : insights from an Arabic-Hebrew speaking preschool in Israel.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

3319772279

9783319772271

OCLC:

1022084802