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Taking Stock: Where Are We Now with TEYL?

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Abstract

The teaching of English as an additional language to young learners (hereafter referred to as TEYL) has grown in the last two decades to become a truly global phenomenon. It is increasingly prioritized by governments worldwide and is possibly currently one of the world’s largest educational policy developments (Johnstone 2009). This phenomenon, as Cameron (2003) has observed, is one that needs to be taken seriously by all of those involved in TESOL, since lowering the age at which English is introduced into school systems has important implications for English language educators at secondary level and beyond. Not least this is because increasingly older learners will be those who have already encountered formal second and foreign language learning as children and will carry the impact of this, whether positive or negative, into their further studies.

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Rich, S. (2014). Taking Stock: Where Are We Now with TEYL?. In: Rich, S. (eds) International Perspectives on Teaching English to Young Learners. International Perspectives on English Language Teaching. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137023230_1

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