In:Early Language Education in Instructed Contexts: Current issues and empirical insights into teaching and learning languages in primary school
Edited by Stefanie Frisch and Karen Glaser
[Language Learning & Language Teaching 62] 2025
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Published online: 22 May 2025
https://doi.org/10.1075/lllt.62.toc
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Table of contents
Notes on the contributorsVII
Introduction1
Chapter 1.Early language education in instructed contexts: An introduction2
Karen Glaser
Stefanie Frisch
Part I.Assessment and teaching practices
Chapter 2.Child-centered assessment research and practice: Current issues20
Yuko Goto Butler
Chapter 3.Primary school learners benefit from captioned video viewing: Vocabulary learning, viewing distribution and perceptions43
Daniela Avello
Carmen Muñoz
Chapter 4.On teachers’ use of the L1 in primary English classrooms in Germany64
Holger Limberg
Part II.Emerging L2 literacy in instructed contexts
Chapter 5.Paving the way for L2 literacy skills from the start — raising
phonographic awareness in the primary English language classroom94
Anne Schrader
Chapter 6.L2 spelling predictors of young German learners of English118
Heike Mlakar
Joanna Hirst-Plein
Martin J. Koch
Chapter 7.Faktör — factoure — facteure? The development of French vowel spelling in a German-French bilingual
primary school140
Anne Lorenz
Constanze Weth
Chapter 8.Young learners’ verbal reports of their writing strategies when composing
an explanatory text in CLIL science160
Yvette Coyle
Julio Roca de Larios
Part III.Teaching and learning materials
Chapter 9.Speech acts in English language textbooks for young language learners in
Croatia186
Eva Jakupčević & Mihajla Ćavar Portolan
Chapter 10.Intercultural and citizenship objectives through
picturebooks in early language learning: Teacher-made resources for Taking Action projects208
picturebooks in early language learning: Teacher-made resources for Taking Action projects208
Nayr Ibrahim
Sandie Mourão
Chapter 11.An English listening comprehension learning game
and its effect on phonological awareness233
and its effect on phonological awareness233
Emilie Charles
Emilie Magnat
Marie-Pierre Jouannaud
Coralie Payre-Ficout
Mathieu Loiseau
Part IV.Teacher, parent and learner views of early language education
Chapter 12.Student teachers’ and mentors’ perceptions of effective teaching techniques in the primary L2 English classroom260
Kristin Kersten
Karen Glaser
Hannah Ruhm
Jana Roos
Sonja Brunsmeier
Martin J. Koch
Chapter 13.Starting early or late? Parental perspectives on the onset of English language education at
primary school in Germany286
Dominik Rumlich
Raphaela Porsch
Chapter 14.The transition from primary school bilingual programmes to regular
foreign language lessons in secondary school: A longitudinal perspective306
Anja Steinlen
Daniela Schwarz
Thorsten Piske
Index329
