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Facing Diversity in Child Foreign Language Education

  • Includes diverse theoretical perspectives, including some that are novel in child language education
  • Provides good balance between research- and practice-oriented contributions from a variety of educational contexts
  • Is the first book that highlights the notion of heterogeneity in the young learner classroom
  • Brings into focus the challenges for language educators who have to face the problem of heterogeneity in their day-to-day practice

Part of the book series: Second Language Learning and Teaching (SLLT)

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Table of contents (17 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-x
  2. The Young Learner and Individual Differences

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 15-15
    2. Trainability of Foreign Language Aptitudes in Children

      • Adriana Biedroń, Mauricio Véliz-Campos
      Pages 39-53
  3. Literacy and Diversity

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 179-179
    2. Corpus-Based Evaluation of Textbook Content: A Case of Russian Language Primary School Textbooks for Migrants

      • Maria Lebedeva, Tatyana Veselovskaya, Olga Kupreshchenko, Antonina Laposhina
      Pages 215-233
  4. Teacher Education in Service of Heterogeneity

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 235-235

About this book

This edited book uses the concept of diversity in child foreign language education as a major organizing principle. Since a foreign language, most typically English, is taught globally to an increasing number of children, the variability in the process and varied learning outcomes are inescapable phenomena. This book has been constructed on the premise that heterogeneity, first, concerns young language learners, who due to the disparity in the pace of development need appropriately tailored educational solutions, and, second, it refers to a diversity of contexts in which learning takes place. The contexts can be defined on a macroscale (e.g. different countries), mesoscale (e.g. different institutions), and microscale (e.g. specific learner groups). The book consists of four thematic strands. In Part One the learner-internal causes of heterogeneity of young language learners are clarified. Part Two presents a sample of classroom studies in which learner variables, such as gender, learner preferences, and special needs are taken into account. Part Three looks at teaching materials and how they meet learners’ needs.  Finally, Part Four highlights diversity issues that teachers should be prepared to face.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Institute of English Philology, Pedagogical University of Kraków, Kraków, Poland

    Joanna Rokita-Jaśkow, Agata Wolanin

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Facing Diversity in Child Foreign Language Education

  • Editors: Joanna Rokita-Jaśkow, Agata Wolanin

  • Series Title: Second Language Learning and Teaching

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-66022-2

  • Publisher: Springer Cham

  • eBook Packages: Education, Education (R0)

  • Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2021

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-66021-5Published: 30 April 2021

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-66024-6Published: 30 April 2022

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-66022-2Published: 29 April 2021

  • Series ISSN: 2193-7648

  • Series E-ISSN: 2193-7656

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: X, 326

  • Number of Illustrations: 25 b/w illustrations, 9 illustrations in colour

  • Topics: Applied Linguistics, Language Education

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Softcover Book USD 159.99
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