A monograph edited by Joanna Rokita-Jaśkow and Melanie Ellis

A monograph edited by Joanna Rokita-Jaśkow and Melanie Ellis has been published by the renowned Routledge publishing house. The volume is entitled Global Challenges Facing Early Language Teaching: Exploring English Language Learning in Diverse Plurilingual Contexts (Link: Global challenges_edited volume).

The publication presents challenges related to early language teaching, including second, foreign, and additional languages, in diverse international contexts. It highlights differences in children’s motivations to learn an additional foreign language in multilingual and monolingual societies.

The chapter authors are researchers representing various international contexts, including Japan, Cyprus, Spain, Poland, Slovenia, Germany, South Korea, Croatia, Indonesia, Canada, and the United Kingdom. Most of them are also members of the Early Language Learning Research Association (ELLRA) and participants in its first conference, held in Kraków in 2026 (https://ellra.weebly.com/).

Drawing on cross-sectional, ethnographic, and experimental studies, the contributors show that effective early additional language teaching requires an understanding of how children learn, the sociolinguistic context in which learning takes place, and the linguistic repertoires available to learners. At the same time, the authors propose pedagogical solutions that have proved effective in their local contexts.