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Kirsch, Claudine; Aleksic, Gabrijela; Mortini, Simone; Andersen, Katja – International Multilingual Research Journal, 2020
This paper investigates seven early education practitioners' attitudes toward multilingual activities and translanguaging as well as their actual practices in Luxembourg. They took part in a professional development comprising a course, coaching, and regular meetings to deepen their understanding of multilingualism and language learning, and…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Early Childhood Teachers, Teacher Attitudes, Multilingualism
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Kirsch, Claudine – European Early Childhood Education Research Journal, 2021
Multilingual education is mandatory in early childhood education in several European countries. Scholars working in first, second and foreign language learning have shown the effectiveness of interaction-promoting and language-modelling strategies for language development. In addition, teachers in bilingual contexts have been translanguaging to…
Descriptors: Multilingualism, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Indo European Languages