Moments That Matter: Reflections on Researching Language Awareness With Young Children Over the past decade, research on additional language (AL) learning in pre-primary education has increased considerably. For instance, a recent review by Nikolov and Mihaljević Djigunović (2023) exam...

🔁 ELLRA Memory Lane

Revisit Veronika Timpe-Laughlin’s session on researching with children.

📖 Open-access article:
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

#ELLRA #EarlyLanguageLearning

Membership options • ELLRA • Early Language Learning ELLRA offers two membership types: individuals with reduced and honorary membership options and institutional with three membership packages.

📢🌍 Why attend ELLRA 2026?

Join researchers and practitioners in Barcelona (3–5 June) to discuss multilingualism and diversity in early language learning.

⏳ Early Bird closes 31 March.

🔗 ellra.org/membership-t...

#ELLRA2026 #EarlyLanguageLearning

Membership options • ELLRA • Early Language Learning ELLRA offers two membership types: individuals with reduced and honorary membership options and institutional with three membership packages.

⏳ Early Bird for ELLRA 2026 closes 31 March!
Join us in Barcelona (3–5 June) at the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona.
Explore multilingualism & diversity in early language learning. Keynote speakers: Sabine Little, Sharon Unsworth & Mario López Gopar.

🔗 ellra.org/membership-t...

#ELLRA2026

📢 ELLRA 2026 programme is live!

See the provisional programme organised by the team at UAB:
webs.uab.cat/ellra-confer...

⏳ Early Bird registration closes 31 March.
(Conference attendance is for ELLRA members.)

#ELLRA2026 #EarlyLanguageLearning

14th ELLRA Webinar for Members by Members 3 March 2026-Does CLIL Time Pay Off? Young CLIL Learners’ Oral Proficiency in the Spanish Context

📅 ELLRA webinar reminder – 3 March, 14:30 CET

🎙 Raúl Azpilicueta-Martínez on whether CLIL time pays off (Spanish context)

Details & registration:
ellra.org/event/14th-e...

#ELLRA #CLIL #Webinar

Developing intercultural competence in English foreign language learning: focus on communication differences This study used a pre- and post-test intervention design, supplied with post-test interviews, to investigate to what extent an English foreign language lesson plan focusing on communication (in)dir...

🌍 ELLRA Memory Lane

Revisit Magne Dypedahl’s 1st Anniversary Web Festival talk on systemic intercultural learning for young learners.

📄 Related study on intercultural competence:
doi.org/10.1080/0031...

Members can access the recording via the portal.

#ELLRA #InterculturalCompetence

🤝 ELLRA Memory Lane
Sunny Man Chu Lau’s talk (1st Anniversary Web Festival, cross-curricular collaboration of English & French teachers)
📄 Open-access paper on transversal competences:
doi.org/10.18192/olb...
ELLRA members can access the recording in the members’ area.
#ELLRA #TeacherCollaboration

📖ELLRA Memory Lane
ELLRA members can revisit past webinars via the members’ area.
🎙Spotlight on Dr He Sun (NIE, NTU Singapore) and her work on digital tools for young language learners.
📄Open-access paper:
scholarspace.manoa.hawaii.edu/items/ded034...

#ELLRA #EarlyLanguageLearning #DigitalLiteracy

💡 Mid-week inspiration for ELLRA members:

Revisit past webinar & WebFestival recordings in the members’ area.

Today’s pick: Anders Myrset’s 2025 WebFestival talk on L2 pragmatic instruction from learners’ perspectives.

#ELLRA #Pragmatics #LanguageLearning

📖 Webinar warm-up | ELLRA

Ahead of our 3 March webinar, check this open-access paper by Raúl Azpilicueta-Martínez on CLIL exposure & young learners’ grammatical complexity.

👉 doi.org/10.1177/1362...

#ELLRA #CLIL

📅 ELLRA webinar | 3 March, 14:30 CET

Raúl Azpilicueta-Martínez explores whether CLIL time really pays off, based on research in the Spanish context.

Members-only event.
#ELLRA #CLIL #earlylanguagelearning

🏅 ELLRA members — reminder to submit nominations for honorary (lifetime) ELLRA membership.

Recognising exceptional contributions to early language learning & ELLRA.

🗓 Deadline: 30 Jan 2026

📩 info@ellra.org

#ELLRA #earlylanguagelearning

Using LLAMA_B as a predictor of L2 vocabulary learning by young learners Studies of language learning aptitude with young learners are scarce. This study aims to contribute to this area by examining the role of aptitude in …

📊 Conference spotlight | ELLRA 2026

Carmen Muñoz examines age-related effects in language learning, drawing on long-term research (open access).

👉 www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

#ELLRA #earlylanguagelearning

🌎 Keynote spotlight | ELLRA 2026

Mario López-Gopar & Darita Isabel Pérez Nava explore critical and decolonial perspectives in language education (open access).

👉 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

#ELLRA #languageeducation

The role of linguistic context and language similarity in the relationship between language exposure and language proficiency in bilingual children Abstract Amount of exposure has consistently been shown to influence language development in bilingual children. To date, it has been treated as a variable that affects language development in the sam...

🌍 Keynote spotlight | ELLRA 2026

Sharon Unsworth examines how exposure, context & language similarity affect bilingual children’s proficiency (open access).

👉 doi.org/10.1075/lab....

#ELLRA #bilingualism

Multilingual picture books – an analysis of language, content and poetic intention In the past decades, the publishing industry has begun to recognise what Adichie calls ‘The Danger of a Single Story’. Since then, while picturebooks featuring children from a more diverse range of...

📖 Keynote spotlight | ELLRA 2026

Sabine Little explores multilingual picturebooks through language, content & poetic intention (open access).

👉 doi.org/10.1080/0143...

#ELLRA #multilingualism

Setting them up for (grammatical) success: on the impact of metalinguistic explanations on young learners’ metalinguistic awareness and language learning aptitude The overlapping constructs of metalinguistic awareness and language learning aptitude act as predictors of attainment in instructional settings. Given the scarce input that young learners of Englis...

📚 Keynote spotlight | ELLRA 2026

Paloma Delgado-Garza & María del Pilar García Mayo examine the role of metalinguistic explanations for young EFL learners (open access).

👉 doi.org/10.1080/0965...

#ELLRA #earlylanguagelearning

🎄
✨ Season’s greetings from ELLRA ✨
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Wishing our community a joyful holiday season and a wonderful New Year.
🎄
Thank you for being part of our international research network!
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#ELLRA #earlylanguagelearning #happyholidays

📬 ELLRA members, check your inboxes!

The new ELLRA newsletter is out, full of news, projects and achievements from across our community.

Not a member yet? Consider it for your New Year’s resolutions! ✨

#ELLRA #earlylanguagelearning #research

🌟 New issue of Children’s Literature in English Language Education is out!

Picturebooks, VR, creativity, anti-racism, identity + more.

Open access 👉 clelejournal.org

📢 ELLRA’s 12th Webinar, by members for members, is coming up on 2 Dec at 14:30 CET.
🎙️ Efrat Marcu will discuss how teachers choose educational apps for EFL classrooms.
📬 Members, check your email for the link.
✨ Not a member yet? Join ELLRA to access our webinars and community.

Navigating multiple multilingual spaces at home and in the day care centre: a case-study in Luxembourg Mismatches between language and literacy practices at home and in day care centres can negatively influence children’s development. This article examines a young child’s engagement in literacy acti...

💡 Looking for research inspiration? Claudine Kirsch’s new open-access article explores how a young learner navigates multilingual spaces across home and day care.

An insightful case study with clear relevance for early-language and literacy practitioners.
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

We are pleased to announce that our ELLRA Ambassador for Poland, Werona Król-Gierat, will be introducing ELLRA this Friday (28 November) at a nationwide event taking place simultaneously at 20 universities in 18 cities across Poland!
Explore the programme here: nocanglistow.pl/en/uniwersyt...

🌱 Final day of the #ELLRA Virtual School!

Topics: Global citizenship, peace & educational technologies with Mónica Lourenço and Yuko Butler.

A powerful close to a rich week of learning.

#ECRs #EarlyLanguageLearning

🎨 Creativity day!
Julie McAdam explores children’s literature research; Nayr Ibrahim shares arts-based multilingual methods.

#ELLRA #ArtsBasedResearch #Multilingualism #ECRs

🌍 Day 3: Interculturality, decoloniality & pluriversal perspectives with Yecid Ortega, plus a special #ELLRA session on language maps!

#VirtualSchool #LanguageLearning #ECRs

Day 2 at the #ELLRA Virtual School!

🤝 Collaboration & plurilingual practices with Daniel Xerri (Malta) & Sunny Lau (Canada).

Exploring how we learn with children, not just about them.

#ResearchWithChildren #ECRs

The #ELLRA Virtual School begins!

🎓 Subhan Zein: Interviewing Young Learners
🎓 Annamaria Pinter: Research with Children

A week of creativity, collaboration & multilingual research starts today!

#EarlyLanguageLearning #ECRs

✨ Last call! Register now for the ELLRA Virtual School for doctoral & early career researchers.

07/11
• Researching Global Citizenship & Peace in Early Language Learning
• Researching Educational Technologies with Young Learners

👉 ellra.org/event/ellra-...

#ELLRA #VirtualSchool #Research

🌍 Connect & collaborate with peers worldwide at the ELLRA Virtual School!

06/11
• Aesthetic & Pedagogical Entanglements in Children’s Literature Research
• Arts-based Approaches to Multilingual Research

👉 ellra.org/event/ellra-...

#Networking #ELLRA