Annamaria Pinter is Reader at the Department of Applied Linguistics, the University of Warwick, UK. She is the author of Teaching Young Language Learners (Oxford University Press, 2nd edition, 2017) and Children Learning Second Languages (Palgrave Macmillan, 2011).

Kuchah Kuchah is Lecturer in Language Education at the University of Leeds, UK. He has served as a consultant on language policy and practice with the British Council, the Council of Europe and Windle Trust International and is currently President of the International Association of Teachers of English as a Foreign Language (IATEFL).

Contributors

Chapter 1. Kuchah Kuchah and Annamaria Pinter: Researching Young Language Learners in School Contexts: Setting the Scene

PART 1: ENCOURAGING CHILDREN TO PLAY ACTIVE ROLES

Chapter 2. Yuko Goto Butler: Researching with Children as an Opportunity for Active and Interactive Learning: Lessons from a Digital Game Design Project

Chapter 3. Samaneh Zandian: Constructing Joint Understandings of Research with Children

Chapter 4. María del Pilar García Mayo: 'Are you coming back? It was fun': Turning Ethical and Methodological Challenges into Opportunities in Task-based Research with Children

PART 2: RESEARCH WITH CHILDREN IN MULTILINGUAL CONTEXTS

Chapter 5. Victoria A. Murphy: Social Justice and Questions of Marginalization in Research with Linguistically Diverse Children

Chapter 6. Gail Prasad: Reframing Expertise: Learning with and from Children as Co-investigators of their Plurilingual Practices and Experiences

Chapter 7. Nayr Ibrahim: Artefactual Narratives of Multilingual Identity: Methodological and Ethical Considerations in Researching Children

Chapter 8. Jane Andrews: "I don't want to talk any more": Reflecting on Research into Young Children's Perspectives on their Multilingual Lives

Chapter 9. Kuchah Kuchah and Lizzi O. Milligan: Navigating Cultural and Methodological Complexities in Research with Children in a Sub-Saharan African Context

PART 3: TEACHER EDUCATION AND RESEARCH WITH CHILDREN

Chapter 10. Gail Ellis and Nayr Ibrahim: Teachers' Image of the Child in an ELT Context

Chapter 11. Rama Mathew and Annamaria Pinter: Children and Teachers as Co-researchers in Indian Classrooms: Some Ethical Issues

Chapter 12. Sandie Mourão: The Ethical Practices of Collecting Informed Consent from Child Participants in Action Research Projects

Chapter 13: Annamaria Pinter and Kuchah Kuchah: Revisiting and Expanding Opportunities for Participatory Research with Young Learners in School Contexts

Index