Multilingual Pedagogies for Early Years

Natalia Martínez-León, PhD professor and researcher at the University of Granada. Areas of specialization: early-age multilingualism, multilingual education, CLIL, pre-K education, and transnational literacies, linguistic landscape and its educational use.Ana Andúgar. Lecturer and researcher in pre-primary and primary education at the University of Alicante. She holds a PhD in Teaching Foreign Languages in Early Childhood Education.Beatriz Cortina-Pérez. Associate Professor in the Languages and Literature Education Department at the University of Granada, lecturer in the Early Childhood Degree, the EFL specialization in the Primary Education Teacher Training program, and the Cultural Diversity MA. Research interests: pre-primary foreign language education and plurilingualism in early years.

• Natalia Martínez-León, Ana Andúgar, Beatriz Cortina-Pérez: Introduction – Julie Waddington, Helen Hedges, Sabine Little, Dario Luis Banegas, Maria Cooper, Moisès Esteban- Guitart: Funds of Knowledge and Identity Approaches to Early Language Education: Experiences From across the Globe – Mónica Lourenço: Nurturing Children’s Global Citizenship Through Multilingual Pedagogies – Ana Isabel García Abellán: Early Literacy Acquisition in EFL and Bilingual Settings: Some Insights from Research – Vivi Paraskevi Thomou, Christos Christodoulakis :Metalinguistic Awareness: A Crucial Factor of Language Learning and Teaching – Soon Young Jang: Translanguaging in a Heritage Language Classroom: Inclusive and Collaborative Learning Pedagogy – Raquel Fernández- Fernández, Ana Virginia López- Fuentes: Project- Based Learning and Picture Books in the CLIL Pre- primary Classroom: A Winning Combination to Develop Intercultural Competence – Máire Mhic Mhathúna, Aisling Ní Dhiorbháin, Pádraig Ó Duibhir: Supporting the Acquisition of Irish as a Minority Language in the Early Years: An Analysis of Three Family, Community and Early Childhood Education Projects – Kelly Shoecraft: Fostering a Multilingual Classroom: Insights from Children’s Agentive and Flexible Language Use During Imaginary Play – Rocío Domene- Benito, Matilde Portalés- Raga, Ana Benavent- Colás: Fostering Early Multilingualism and Multiculturalism Through the Democratic Art of My Museum by Joanne Liu – Sara Isabel Rendón Romero, Christopher Jolly, Macarena Navarro Pablo: Biliteracy at Early Stages: Teaching Spanish and English Literacy Simultaneously – Ana M. Rico- Martín, María- José Molina- García, Ligia Isabel Estrada- Vidal, Silvia Corral- Robles: Family and English Reading in Early Childhood: Attitudes and Habits – José Alejandro Ángeles- González, Evaristo Bernabé- Chávez: Family, The Community and the Teachers as Agents of Development and Maintenance of Language and Culture. Let’s Continue Speaking Otomi – Aldo Anzures Tapia, Nancy H. Hornberger: Maya Children Doing Language Policy: Tracing Spaces – Maj- Britt Wesemeyer, Facundo Reyna- Muniain: Family Language Policies Within French- and Spanish- Speaking Families Residing in Germany – Beatriz Cortina- Pérez: Rethinking Teacher Knowledge Base (TKB) for Early Childhood – Additional Language Teachers – Mari Bergroth, Monica Londen: Preparing Early Childhood Teachers for Multilingual Pedagogies Beyond Bilingualism – Kirsten Birsak de Jersey: English in Inclusive Multilingual Preschools: Researching the Potential of a Teacher Education Model for In- Service Teachers – Javier Fernández Molina: Exploring the Views of Spanish Pre- Service Teachers on Phonics from a Qualitative Research Perspective – Sviatlana Karpava: Linguistically and Culturally Responsive Pedagogy for Young EFL Learners – Brief Narrative CV of Each Volume Author/ Editor.