Multilingual Pedagogies for Early Years. Theoretical Insights and Innovative Approaches

Natalia Martínez-León. Applied English Linguistics PhD, professor, and researcher at the University of Granada. Her specialisation areas are: early ages plurilingualism, plurilingual education, CLIL, pre-K ed, ICLHE, educational technology and transnational literacies. Belonging to the research project research "Design of a teacher profile for pre-primary Education from a plurilingual approach: learning foreign and additional languages in early childhood (LEyLA)". Ana Andúgar Soto. Lecturer and researcher in the pre-primary and primary education degrees at the University of Alicante. PhD in Teaching Foreign Languages in Early Childhood Education. She belongs to the research group HUM840 "Open Knowledge for Social Action" of the University of Granada, and she is currently involved in the R+D project "Design of a teacher profile for pre-primary Education from a plurilingual approach: learning foreign and additional languages in early childhood (LEyLA)". Beatriz Cortina Pérez. Associate Professor at the Languages and Literature Education Department at the University of Granada where she lectures in the Early Childhood Degree and the EFL specialization in the Primary Education Teacher Training program, and Cultural Diversity MA. She is editor of the Springer International Handbook of CLIL in Pre-primary Education. She is the main researcher at the national R&D project "Designing of a teacher profile for pre-primary Education from a plurilingual approach: learning foreign and additional languages in early childhood (LEyLA)". Her research interests revolve around pre-primary foreign language education and plurilingualism at early years.