Language Awareness Rebooted: Teaching about Languages in Early Schooling

This book challenges traditional ideologies, pedagogies, and methodologies for learning about languages in early childhood.It examines language awareness as a critical component of early schooling for English monolinguals and includes a systematic review of language planning policies in ten English-speaking nations.Martine Jago advances a case for teaching children under the age of seven about language: how language evolved; how language functions; how meanings are constructed; and how linguistic otherness is encountered and interpreted.This research is based on a longitudinal study of child development, literacy education, and teaching about languages other than English.Jago argues that early attention to language as a social and cultural practice supports linguistic skills and emotional responses - effect and affect.The book presents a new paradigm and a new framework for embedding language awareness within early years policies, classroom practices, and language learning processes as