Handbook of CLIL in Pre-primary Education
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2023
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Springer Nature Switzerland
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With the purpose of establishing solid foundations on which to base the CLIL approach in the early child hood stage, and in the face of the lack of research in this area of knowledge, the volume Handbook of CLIL in Pre-primary Education emerges. The book features a prologue by Dr. David Marsh, , widely acknowledged as the father of CLIL, and contributions from numerous prestigious researchers worldwide, which are arranged in forty comprehensive chapters, spanning from the analysis of how foreign language learning has grown in early childhood education to considerations of the cognitive benefits it offers or methodologies to apply it, all of which are consecutively arranged in five overarching parts: Theoretical Underpinnings, CLIL international contexts, Methodological Issues: CLIL Pedagogy Applied to Pre-primary Education, Resources and Materials and Insights from the Classroom.
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This book provides an in-depth look on Content and Language Integrated Learning (CLIL) and Early Childhood Education (ECE), two domains where major joint research is needed. By taking stock on theoretical underpinnings, it explores the ideal conditions for early additional language acquisition in preschool contexts through CLIL with a learner-centered approach grounded in developmentally appropriate practices (DEP) and an emphasis on the importance of play, cognition, holistic content adaptation and social-emotional learning. The book also offers a comprehensive view of how this methodological approach has already set a clear path on Pre-primary education internationally. Finally, it offers insights into CLIL pedagogies as related and adapted to Pre-primary education, resources and materials for very young learners and practical implementation from the classroom. By providing a solid empirical background on Pre-primary CLIL, along with appropriate methodological issues and practices, this book serves as a key resource to students, practitioners, academics as well as teacher educators and policy-makers in international contexts.