Name: Political, Pedagogical and Research Insights into Early Language Education
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Political, Pedagogical and Research Insights into Early Language Education

Edited By: Hacer Hande Uysal

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This valuable contribution to teaching languages to young learners offers new global perspectives on policy, theory, research, and pedagogy. It covers cognitive learning, teacher education, and classroom practices, making it essential for policymakers, researchers, and teachers.

This book represents a valuable contribution to current discussions on teaching languages to young learners. It offers new perspectives from around the world about macro-…

This book represents a valuable contribution to current discussions on teaching languages to young learners. It offers new perspectives from around the world about macro- and micro-language planning and policies, theories and research, and pedagogical suggestions regarding teaching languages to young learners. The volume offers comprehensive coverage of topics touching upon important aspects of the cognitive and social learning processes of young learners, the current situation of early language teacher education, and primary-level classroom practices. It begins with a discussion of planning and policies around the world with regards to teaching languages to children, before presenting a review of theoretical frameworks and offering research-based studies that test these theories. It will be of interest to policymakers, program designers, researchers, teacher trainers, and teachers, as well as undergraduate and graduate students of Foreign Language Education and TESOL programs at universities.

Hacer Hande Uysal is a Professor at the Department of Foreign Language Education of Hacettepe University, Turkey. She received her Master’s degree in English Education and her PhD in Foreign Language and ESL Education from the University of Iowa, USA. She was the founding editor-in-chief of the Journal of Language Teaching and Learning, and has published three books, seven book chapters and 13 journal articles on second language writing, language policy, and early language education. She directed an ERASMUS+ project named “A Web and School-based Professional Development Project for Foreign Language Teachers of Young Learners”, funded by the European Commission, which resulted in the creation of an online educational program for early language teachers. She also co-edited the Handbook for Teaching Foreign Languages to Young Learners in Primary Schools (2010).