Language Teaching for Young Learners

Online-first articles

The following articles have been published online-first, and have not yet been published in an issue.

28 October 2024

Exploring the intercultural potential of picturebooks in early secondary EFL classrooms in Austria: The case of perspective-taking
Jasmin Peskoller and Caroline Bader | 24 pp.

25 October 2024

Young language learners and the intercultural domain: Emerging perspectives
Sandie Mourão and Raphaelle Beecroft | 22 pp.

21 October 2024

Designing L2 pronunciation instruction activities for primary school learners: A content analysis of ELT textbooks used in China
Jie Gao | 33 pp.

17 October 2024

A pilot analysis of a young-learner classroom anecdote: Exploratory Practice (EP) in terms of phenomenology
Yuzuru Miyamoto and Timothy Hunter | 12 pp.
“It’s a teacher’s dream to have something this engaging” English picturebook read-alouds in upper primary school
Maria Nilsson | 24 pp.

4 October 2024

Intercultural encounters through two picturebooks in the lower primary EFL classroom in Denmark
Karoline Søgaard | 23 pp.

19 September 2024

Asynchronous virtual exchange and young English learners’ intercultural communicative competence: An exploratory study
Sarah Reader | 23 pp.

16 September 2024

Fostering primary students’ competences for democratic culture in EFL: The PEACE project
Motoko Abe and Raphaelle Beecroft | 27 pp.

27 August 2024

An investigation into FL children’s classroom emotions and their concurrent and longitudinal relationships with grit and growth mindset
Arthur Tsang | 20 pp.

15 August 2024

Chinese parents’ involvement in their young children’s app-based language learning
Hee Jin Bang and Alison Mackey | 25 pp.

19 July 2024

“I want children to see that their languages are respected” Perspectives on world language learning from pre-primary teachers in the United States
Veronika Timpe-Laughlin, Lorraine Sova and Michelle Kim | 24 pp.
Review of Pinter (2023): Engaging children in applied linguistics research
Meifang Zhuo | 5 pp.

12 May 2023

Review of Hayes (2022): Early Language Learning in Context: A Critical Socioeducational Perspective
Shelagh Rixon | 4 pp.