New Trends in Early Foreign Language Learning The Age Factor CLIL and Languages in Contact Bridging Research and Good Practices 1st Edition by Maria Gonzalez Davies,Annarita Taronna ISBN 1443837008 9781443837002

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ISBN 10: 1443837008

ISBN 13: 9781443837002 

Author: Maria González Davies; Annarita Taronna 

This volume is the result of the presentations and discussions carried out at the Conference on “Early Foreign Language Learning in Educational Contexts. Bridging Good Practices and Research” organized by the University Ramon Lull, the University of Bari and LEND (Lingua e Nuova Didattica) in March 2010.

At the Conference, both teachers and researchers met to examine recent language teaching theories and practices from a transnational and intercultural perspective, on the one hand, and on the other, to fill the gap in the field of English as a Foreign Language (EFL) in schools and to pave the way for a wider platform of discussion between School and University. Since these two institutions have often had little contact and, as there is excellent work carried out in both, our attempt was to build more solid bridges across their contexts, engaging school teachers in ongoing research and bringing everyday classroom practice nearer to university theoreticians in an open exchange forum so that the reflection on teaching and learning becomes relevant and rewarding for the participants involved in Early Foreign Language Learning in 21st century contexts.

Drawing on the main topics presented throughout the Conference, this book has been structured around three main thematic areas: 1) the Age Factor, 2) CLIL and Content-based research and practices, and 3) developing intercultural competence: use of the L1 and translation as mediation skills.

Each of these sections encompasses high quality contributions, all informed by salient and recent research, clear and justified theoretical standpoints and good practices which are appealing to an international audience and setting.

The editors sincerely hope that this volume contributes to widen the field of foreign language teaching and learning to include studies on young learners’ perceptions and performance. At the same time, they would like to highlight the decisive new focus on language learning adopted in the 21st century: the inclusion of a wider vision of language acquisition, one that highlights the relevance of using languages not only to communicate but, more relevantly, to mediate between cultures, as a means to bring together the plurilingual and pluricultural citizens of our future.

Table of contents:

Part I. The Age Factor: Informed Procedures for Very Young Learners

• Chapter One: “I wish I were three!”: Learning EFL at an Early Age

• Chapter Two: Being Young, Being Adult: The Age Factor Issue for Vocabulary in FL Education

Part II. CLIL and Content–based Learning Research and Practices

• Chapter Three: Content and Language Integrated Learning: Language Using, Learning Gains

• Chapter Four: My Digital English: A Digital Storytelling Syllabus (DST)

• Chapter Five: Multimodality and Learning: Comics as Teaching Tools for Early Foreign Language Acquisition

• Chapter Six: Project-based Work in the Digital Era

Part III. Developing Intercultural Competence: Use of the L1 and Translation as Mediation Skills

• Chapter Seven: The Comeback of Translation: Integrating a Spontaneous Practice in Foreign Language Learning

• Chapter Eight: Developing Plurilingual Competence with Young Learners: “We Play and We Learn and We Speak in Three Languages”

• Chapter Nine: I Know You Are Italian, But Please Think in English!: The Role of L1 in the EFL Classes

• Chapter Ten: Stories About Stories: Research on Teachers’ Beliefs about Using Narratives in the EFL Class

• Chapter Eleven: Immigration and EFL in the Twenty-first Century: Promoting Crosscultural Awareness and Social Justice through a Textbook

• Chapter Twelve: Audiovisual Products, Translanguaging and New Teaching Methodologies: The Case of Tracy e Polpetta

• Chapter Thirteen: Prospective Primary English Teacher’s Training: Developing Intercultural Competence Through Multiethnic Children’s Literature

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