Additional information
by Dimitra Karoulla-Vrikki (Editor), Lucilla Lopriore (Editor)
This volume presents research on oracy development in early language learning, with a particular focus on the pedagogical implications for growingly plurilingual classrooms. The chapters offer empirical results from diverse international contexts which reveal common and differing experiences of teaching methodologies and assessment practices, learners' attitudes and motivation, and young learners' skill development processes. Together they explore the effects of language policy, collaborative learning and teacher intervention on the development of children's listening and speaking skills in a second or foreign language. The book will be of interest to researchers in early second language acquisition as well as students on EFL, TESOL and ESL courses. It will be particularly useful to pre-primary and primary teachers in multilingual classrooms and can be used in teacher education and professional development programmes to promote reflection on current teaching practices.
Author Biography
Dimitra Karoulla-Vrikki is Associate Professor of Linguistics at European University Cyprus. Her research investigates language policy and planning, English as a medium of instruction in higher education, early foreign language learning, government translation and interpretation, and the linguistic landscape in Cyprus.
Lucilla Lopriore is a teacher and teacher educator and was Professor of English Linguistics at Roma Tre University, Italy until 2022. She has led Italian research teams in international projects including ELLiE, ENRICH and the 1999 Italian National Survey of young learners' FL achievement. Her research includes CLIL, early foreign language acquisition, ELF, language policy and plurilingualism.
