This book is a call to action for educators, policymakers and parents, combining practical strategies with research-based insights to support its readers in advocating for multilingual education. It will enable teachers to combine technological innovations and the linguistic resources of their communities to support and promote multilingualism.

Jieun Kiaer is Professor of Korean Linguistics at the University of Oxford, UK. Her recent publications include Young Children's Foreign Language Anxiety: The Case of South Korea (with Jessica M. Morgan-Brown and Naya Choi, Multilingual Matters, 2021) and Multimodal Communication in Young Multilingual Children: Learning Beyond Words (Multilingual Matters, 2023).

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Introduction

Chapter 1. The Big "Why": Questions for UK Language Education             

Chapter 2. Challenges and Prospects in the UK's Language Education      

Chapter 3. Why Language Matters          

Chapter 4. Why Home and Community Language Matters           

Chapter 5. Psychology of Language Learning       

Chapter 6. Digital Innovation Matters    

Chapter 7. Collaboration Matters            

Chapter 8. Towards Translanguaging Pedagogy

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Index