{"id":391,"date":"2025-06-26T13:04:00","date_gmt":"2025-06-26T11:04:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/webs.uab.cat\/ellra-conference-2026\/?page_id=391"},"modified":"2025-06-26T13:10:49","modified_gmt":"2025-06-26T11:10:49","slug":"home","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/webs.uab.cat\/ellra-conference-2026\/","title":{"rendered":"Home"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"244\" src=\"https:\/\/webs.uab.cat\/ellra-conference-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/663\/2025\/06\/school-kids-1-1024x244.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-266\" srcset=\"https:\/\/webs.uab.cat\/ellra-conference-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/663\/2025\/06\/school-kids-1-1024x244.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/webs.uab.cat\/ellra-conference-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/663\/2025\/06\/school-kids-1-300x72.jpg 300w, https:\/\/webs.uab.cat\/ellra-conference-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/663\/2025\/06\/school-kids-1-768x183.jpg 768w, https:\/\/webs.uab.cat\/ellra-conference-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/663\/2025\/06\/school-kids-1-1536x366.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/webs.uab.cat\/ellra-conference-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/663\/2025\/06\/school-kids-1-2048x489.jpg 2048w, https:\/\/webs.uab.cat\/ellra-conference-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/663\/2025\/06\/school-kids-1-1200x286.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/webs.uab.cat\/ellra-conference-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/663\/2025\/06\/school-kids-1-1980x472.jpg 1980w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Early language education is undergoing a multilingual turn, shifting from traditional monolingual approaches to a more inclusive and flexible view of language use, identity and learning (Conteh &amp; Meier, 2014). Being in contact with and learning to communicate in more than one language from an early age has been shown to favour enriched cognitive development and opens doors to a deeper appreciation and understanding of other cultures, perspectives and backgrounds (Cenoz &amp; Gorter, 2021; Garc\u00eda 2009).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In many classrooms around the world, children come from a wide range of socio-economic, linguistic, cultural, and ethnic backdrops. Embracing such diversity through multilingual educational practices not only contributes to acknowledging students\u2019 unique identities but also promotes inclusion and a sense of belonging from a very young age (ELLRA, 2023; Norton &amp; Toohey, 2011; UNESCO, 2025). Therefore, exploring multilingualism and diversity in formal early language learning contexts can provide a greater insight into how children (aged 2-12) learn and engage with languages in diverse and dynamic classrooms and identify instructional practices which render language education much more equitable and inclusive from an early age.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We hope the conference will be a fruitful experience for scholars from various disciplines (e.g., linguistics, applied linguistics, education, language didactics, pedagogy, psychology, sociolinguistics, children&#8217;s literature, etc.) and learning contexts worldwide conducting research into early language learning in formal contexts, be it foreign, second, minority, additional or heritage languages.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Early language education is undergoing a multilingual turn, shifting from traditional monolingual approaches to a more inclusive and flexible view of language use, identity and learning (Conteh &amp; Meier, 2014). Being in contact with and learning to communicate in more than one language from an early age has been shown to favour enriched cognitive development [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3070,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-391","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/webs.uab.cat\/ellra-conference-2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/391","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/webs.uab.cat\/ellra-conference-2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/webs.uab.cat\/ellra-conference-2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webs.uab.cat\/ellra-conference-2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3070"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webs.uab.cat\/ellra-conference-2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=391"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/webs.uab.cat\/ellra-conference-2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/391\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":398,"href":"https:\/\/webs.uab.cat\/ellra-conference-2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/391\/revisions\/398"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/webs.uab.cat\/ellra-conference-2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=391"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}