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Language Teaching for Young Learners: Online-First ArticlesIntroduction
Young language learners and the intercultural domain
Emerging perspectives
Article outline
- A focus on teachers
- Intercultural communicative competence and young learners
- This special issue
- Empirical research and intercultural learning with young learners 2009–2024
- The children in empirical research on intercultural learning
- Longer term projects that included an investigation into intercultural learning
- Byram’s ICC model and young learners
- The ICC model as a guide for teaching and learning
- Political education and young learners
- Virtual exchange and intercultural learning
- Picturebooks for intercultural learning
- The special issue articles
- Acknowledgements
- Notes
- Author queries
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