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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.
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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
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| Published | 29 Oct 2026 |
|---|---|
| Format | Ebook (Epub & Mobi) |
| Edition | 1st |
| Pages | 288 |
| ISBN | 9781350413252 |
| Imprint | Bloomsbury Academic |
| Illustrations | 10 bw illus |
| Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing |
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