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Description
This book challenges traditional ideologies, pedagogies, and methodologies for learning about languages in early childhood. It examines language awareness as a critical component of early schooling for English monolinguals and includes a systematic review of language planning policies in ten English-speaking nations.
Martine Jago advances a case for teaching children under the age of seven about language: how language evolved; how language functions; how meanings are constructed; and how linguistic otherness is encountered and interpreted. This research is based on a longitudinal study of child development, literacy education, and teaching about languages other than English. Jago argues that early attention to language as a social and cultural practice supports linguistic skills and emotional responses – effect and affect. The book presents a new paradigm and a new framework for embedding language awareness within early years policies, classroom practices, and language learning processes as a foundation for building reflective, inclusive, and informed educational environments. This is reading for school leaders, regional directors, and national policymakers.
Table of Contents
List of Tables
1. Global Perspective
2. Historical Perspective
3. TIPI Framework
4. Learning Policies
5. Learning People
6. Learning Processes
7. Language Environment
8. Language Entitlement
9. Language Empowerment
10. Alphabet Soup
References
Index
Product details
| Published | Nov 26 2026 |
|---|---|
| Format | Hardback |
| Edition | 1st |
| Pages | 288 |
| ISBN | 9781350413238 |
| Imprint | Bloomsbury Academic |
| Illustrations | 10 bw illus |
| Dimensions | 234 x 156 mm |
| Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing |
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