Early Language Learning

Janet Enever is Professor of Language Teaching and Learning at Umeå University, Sweden and Visiting Professor at University of Reading, UK. Her research interests include early language learning, language policy, globalisation and language learning, and pre-school language learning.Eva Lindgren is Associate Professor of Language Teaching and Learning at Umeå University, Sweden. Her research interests include early language learning, literacy, minority/indigenous education and multilingualism.

This is an exciting edited volume for graduate students, researchers and decision-makers interested in early language teaching and learning. The chapters present research conducted in 13 countries in Africa, Europe, Asia and Latin America and discuss English and French as a foreign, second and additional language. The studies offer insights into innovative uses of mixed methods to examine literacy development, individual differences and a range of other aspects of early language learning.

• DedicationList of ContributorsList of FiguresList of Tables1. Eva Lindgren and Janet Enever: Introduction: Mixed Methods In Early Language Learning Research – Examining ComplexitySECTION 1. OVERVIEWS OF RESEARCH FINDINGS2. Agatha J. Van Ginkel: Early Language Learning in Complex Linguistic Settings, Insights from Africa3. Patricia Driscoll: The Complexity of Cultural Learning within Early Language Learning: A Model of Good Practice                                                4. Victoria Murphy: Literacy Development in Children with English as an Additional Language (EAL)SECTION 2. EMPIRICAL STUDIES USING MIXED METHODS5. Alison Porter: Verbal Working Memory and Foreign Language Learning In English Primary Schools:  Implications for Teaching and Learning6. Jiang Changsheng, Zhang Jie, Liang Xiaohua, Yuan Yuan and Qun Xie: Piecing Together the Jigsaw: Understanding Motivations of English Learners in Chinese Primary School through a Questionnaire and Elicited Metaphor Analysis7. Judith Buendgens-Kosten, Ilonca Hardy and Daniela Elsner: Code-Switching Your Way to Language Learning? Receptive Code-Switching With Digital Storybooks in Early Language Learning8. Heather Hilton: Individual Differences and English L2 Learning in Two Primary Classrooms in France9. Karmen Pižorn: Content and Language Integrated Learning: A Panacea for Young English Language Learners?       SECTION 3. LONGITUDINAL PERSPECTIVES USING MIXED METHODS10. Yuko Goto Butler: The Dynamics of Motivation Development among Young Learners of English in China                                                                         11. Lucilla Lopriore: Young Italian Learners’ Foreign Language Development: A Longitudinal Perspective12. Eva Lindgren and Janet Enever: Employing Mixed Methods for the Construction of Thick Descriptions of Early Language Learning           13. Jelena Mihaljević Djigunović: Developmental Aspects of Early EFL LearningSECTION FOUR: EVALUATING EARLY LANGUAGE LEARNING PROGRAMMES14. María Del Pilar García Mayo and Ainara Imaz: Child EFL Interaction: Age, Instructional Setting and Development15. Peter Sayer, Ruth Ban and Magdalena López De Anda: Evaluating the Educational Outcomes of an Early Foreign Language Program: The Design of an Impact Study for the Primary English Program in Mexico16. Raphaela Porsch and Eva Wilden: The Development of a Curriculum-Based C-Test for Young EFL Learners17. Janet Enever and Eva Lindgren Mixed Methods in Early Language Learning Research