The Ecology of Pre-Primary Foreign Language Learning.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Rokita-Jaśkow, Joanna.

Series:

Early Language Learning in School Contexts ; 9

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Early childhood education.

Second language acquisition.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (181 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Bristol : Multilingual Matters, 2025.

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

This book synthesises research on very early language learning in pre-primary organised instruction settings, using a framework of ecological development to investigate the nested systems in which very young learners operate and the influence of other agents on children's foreign language learning.

Contents:

Cover

Half Title

Title Page

Copyright Page

Dedication

Contents

Introduction

Why the Ecological Approach?

Chapter 1: The Child's Biosystem: How Children Learn to Communicate in Their First and Foreign Languages

1.1 Learning to Communicate in the First Language

1.2 Children's Ways of Learning

1.3 How First Language Development Impacts Early Foreign Language Learning

Summary

Chapter 2: Microsystem: The Educational Institution

2.1 Children's Attitude to and Motivation for FL Learning

2.2 Defining Quality in Very Early FL Instruction

2.3 Organisation of Instruction, Institution Type and Curriculum

2.4 Methodology

2.5 The Teacher

2.6 The Role of Peers in FL Instruction

2.7 Teacher Agency

Chapter 3: Mesosystem: Family Environment

3.1 Parental Involvement in Child FL Education

3.2 Factors Affecting Parental Involvement

3.3 Parental Agency

Chapter 4: Exosystem: The Affordances of the Linguistic Landscape

4.1 Globalisation, Englishisation and Neoliberalism as Drivers of Early FL Education

4.2 Affordances of Linguistic Landscapes

4.3 Affordances of Screen Media

4.4 Agency and the Linguistic Landscape

Chapter 5: Macrosystem: Early Language Learning Policy and Planning

5.1 An Early Start in a FL in European Language-in-Education Policy

5.2 Early Language Learning Policies Outside Europe

5.3 Early Language Learning Policy Implementation

5.4 Access Policy and Equity

5.5 Evaluation Policies

5.6 Agency and Policy

Chapter 6: The Chronosystem

6.1 A Very Early Start in an FL as Utilising 'a Window of Opportunity'

6.2 FL Learning Continuity From Pre-Primary to Primary School

6.3 Agency and Time

Concluding Remarks

Potential direction of future research

References

Subject Index.

Author Index.

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ISBN:

9781800417878

180041787X

9781800417861

1800417861

OCLC:

1484070931