Project Aims: Early Language Learning in Europe

Principle research aim: to clarify what can realistically be achieved in state schools where relatively limited amounts of class time are available for foreign language learning.

Three areas of study:

• the processes of policy implementation
• the factors contributing most effectively to the success of ELL
• the linguistic and non-linguistic outcomes of ELL

Transversal priority strands:

• the significance of the teacher's role in ELL
• the particular impact of digital media on learning

It is anticipated that this research will provide a much-needed body of data of sufficient scale to offer the kind of validity that previous studies have been unable to achieve, with the potential to strategically inform both future policy and practice.

Supported by

This research project is supported by a European Commission grant under the Lifelong Learning Programme, Project n°. 135632-LLP-2007-UK-KA1SCR.

An additional British Council grant supports the Croatian team.