Handbook of CLIL in Pre-primary Education

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.

• Content and Language Integrated Learning
• Early childhood education
• Pre-primary education
• Implementing education in early years
• Teaching foreign languages in the early years
• Bilingual and plurilingual language policies
• Resources and materials
• CLIL appropriate methodological issues
• CLIL in international contexts

• Complutense University, Madrid, Spain

  Ana Otto

• Languages and Literature Education Department, University of Granada, Granada, Spain

  Beatriz Cortina-Pérez

Dr. Ana Otto is assistant professor at the Didactics of Languages, Arts and Physical Education Department, where she teaches English, and has wide experience lecturing Didactics of Foreign Languages and Bilingual Education. Her main research interests are Bilingual Education, Content and Language Integrated Learning and assessment, on which she has published and lectured extensively.

Dr. Beatriz Cortina-Pérez is professor (associate) at the Languages and Literature Education Department at the University of Granada where she lectures in the Early Childhood Degree and the EFL specialisation in the Primary Education Teacher Training programme, and Cultural Diversity MA. Her research interests revolve around pre-primary foreign language education and plurilingualism at early years, on which she has published and lectured extensively. She is editor of the international journal Porta Linguarum.