Preschool Bilingual Education Agency in Interactions Between Children, Teachers, and Parents /

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Schwartz, Mila (Editor, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2018.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2018.
• Series: Multilingual Education, 25
• Subjects: Child development.; Multilingualism.; Educational policy.; Education and state.; Language and education.; Early Childhood Education.; Educational Policy and Politics.; Language Education.

This volume provides an up-to-date collection of key aspects related to current preschool bilingual education research from a socio-linguistic perspective. The focus is on preschool bilingual education in multilingual Europe, which is characterized by diverse language models and children's ling...

Table of Contents:

• Preface
• Preschool Bilingual Education: Agency in Interactions between Children, Teachers, and Parents, Mila Schwartz
• Part I: Teacher's Challenges in Navigating Bilingual Spaces in their Classrooms and Practical Decisions
• Separating the Languages in a Bilingual Preschool: To Do or Not to Do? Danijela Prošić, Danijela Radović
• Pre-School Bilingual Education in Malta: The Realities and the Challenges, Charles L. Mifsud, Lara Ann Vella
• Whose Challenge is it? Learners and Teachers of English in Hungarian Preschool Contexts, Réka Lugossy
• Part II: Creating Language-conducive Contexts to Engage Children in Language Learning
• Longing for Quality: Experiences of Finnish-Russian Bilingual Kindergartens in Finland, Ekaterina Protassova
• Dynamics in Interaction in Bilingual Team Teaching: Examples from a Finnish Preschool Classroom, Karita Mård-Miettenen, Åsa Palviainen, Anu Palojärvi
• The Role of Early Childhood Education in Revitalizing a Minoritized Language in an Unsupportive Policy Context: The Galician Case, Renée DePalma, María Helena Zapico Barbeito
• EFL Teachers' Reflections on their Teaching Practice in Spanish Preschools: A Focus on Motivation, Gunhild Tomter Alstad, Elena Tkachenko
• Scaffolding Discourse Skills in Pre-primary L2 Classrooms, María Teresa Fleta Guillén
• Play and Peer Interaction in a Low-exposure Foreign Langauge-learning program, Sandie Mourão
• The Role of Language Experts in Novices' Language Acquisition and Socialization: Insights from an Arabic-Hebrew Speaking Preschool in Israel, Mila Schwartz, Naomi Gorbatt.