Overview
- A much needed resource on preschool bilingual education combining the experiences of teachers, parents, and children
- Focuses on developed nations, where main topics are minority and immigrants’ language maintenance supported by bilingual preschool education
- Highlights successful projects, programmes and language practices in preschool bilingual education
Part of the book series: Multilingual Education (MULT, volume 25)
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Table of contents (12 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Teachers’ Challenges in Navigating Bilingual Spaces in Their Classrooms and Practical Decisions
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Creating Language-Conducive Contexts to Engage Children in Language Learning
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Keywords
- bilingual education
- bilingualism multilingualism
- bilingual kindergarten
- pre-primary multilingual schools
- teacher education for bilingual preschools
- practice and policy in bilingual preschools
- interactional patterns in bilingual co-teaching
- revitalization of a minority language
- EFL teachers and bilingual schools
- preschool learner engagement in language learning
- discourse skill building in preschool classrooms
- peer interaction in foreign language learning
- language acquisition and socialization in bilingual context
- early childhood bilingual development
About this book
This volume provides an up-to-date collection of key aspects related to current preschool bilingual education research from a socio-linguistic perspective. The focus is on preschool bilingual education in multilingual Europe, which is characterized by diverse language models and children's linguistic backgrounds. The book explores the contemporary perspectives on early bilingual education in light of the threefold theoretical framework of child's, teachers', and parents' agencies in interaction in preschool bilingual education. Five significant theoretical concepts are promoted in this volume: the ecology of language learning, an educational partnership for bilingualism, a notion of agency in early language development and education, language-conducive contexts, and language-conducive strategies. The volume examines preschool bilingual education as embedded in specific socio-cultural contexts on the one hand and highlights its universal features on the other. The bookis a fundamental read for scholars and students of second language teaching, preschool education, and bilingual education in multilingual and multicultural societies.
Editors and Affiliations
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Preschool Bilingual Education
Book Subtitle: Agency in Interactions Between Children, Teachers, and Parents
Editors: Mila Schwartz
Series Title: Multilingual Education
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-77228-8
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Education, Education (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer International Publishing AG, part of Springer Nature 2018
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-77227-1Published: 31 May 2018
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-08404-2Published: 26 December 2018
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-77228-8Published: 23 May 2018
Series ISSN: 2213-3208
Series E-ISSN: 2213-3216
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XVI, 365
Number of Illustrations: 10 b/w illustrations
Topics: Early Childhood Education, Multilingualism, Educational Policy and Politics, Language Education