Innovative Practices in Early English Language Education

David Valente is a PhD research fellow in English teacher education at Nord University, Norway. His research explores intercultural citizenship through children’s literature.Daniel Xerri is Senior Lecturer in TESOL at the University of Malta. His research and publications focus mainly on teacher education and global skills.

• 1. Introduction: confluence, connections and a call to action in early English education.- 2. Integrating language learning into education in the primary English classroom.- 3. Implementing agency-based approaches in upper-primary English language education.- 4. Developing intercultural competence in early years and primary ELT.- 5. Enriching early years English language education with translanguaging.-  6. Developing primary English learners’ visual literacy for a multimodal world.- 7. Fostering digital literacies in primary English language education.- 8. Reimagining picturebook pedagogy for online primary English language education.- 9. Building in assessment for learning to existing primary ELT practice.- 10. Expanding the role of self-assessment: From assessing to learning English.- 11. Embedding ELT within early childhood teacher education.- 12. Educating early years and primary English language teachers multilingually.- 13. Scaffolding in-depth learning: picturebooks for intercultural citizenship in primary English teacher education.- 14. Mainstreaming metacognitive practices in primary English teacher education programmes.- 15. Incorporating pragmatics into primary English language teacher education.