Innovative Practices in Early English Language Education

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.