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    • Developing children’s language awareness: switching codes in the language classroom 

      Corcoll López, Cristina (International Journal of Multilingualism, 10:1, 27-45, 2013)
      This article examines how learning an additional language can positively affect children’s opinions and feelings about languages and how this process can be enriched when different languages namely, ...
    • Developing plurilingual competence with young learners: "We play and we learn and we speak in three languages" 

      Corcoll López, Cristina (González Davies, M. i Taronna, A. (eds.). New Trends in Early Foreign Language Learning: The Age Factor, CLIL and Languages in Contact. Bridging Research and Good Practices. pp. 97-109, 2012)
      The main aim of this chapter is to justify in theoretical and practical terms why plurilingual competence should be developed in the context of teaching and additional language in Primary Education and ...
    • Early languages 

      Corcoll López, Cristina; Flores, Carme (Sutherland, H. i Mukadam, Y. (eds.). Supporting Toddlers’ Wellbeing in Early Years Settings: Strategies and Tools for Practitioners and Teachers (pp. 161-177), 2018-04)
      Early childhood education should provide toddlers with the best learning opportunities. Nowadays, when focusing on language and language learning, the best learning opportunities should include adapting ...
    • Obrint portes a l’ús autèntic de l’anglès: Els moments quotidians a l’escola 

      Corcoll López, Cristina; Flores, Carme (Guix d'Infantil, Num. 78 (nov./des. 2014), p. 31-35, 2014-11)
      En aquest article, s’hi presenta una proposta d’introducció de l’anglès a l’educació infantil que vol ser coherent amb les característiques i les necessitats de l’etapa, a més d’efectiva en el paper ...
    • Plurilingualism and using languages to learn languages: a sequential approach to deal effectively with language diversity 

      Corcoll López, Cristina (Innovation in Language Learning and Teaching, 2021, vol. 15, n.1, 42-51, 2021)
      After years of controversy and terminological debate, the plurilingual approach is now well accepted by language teaching communities. Still, doubts concerning how the plurilingual approach can shape ...
    • Prácticas plurilingües en el aula de lengua adicional: Del concepto a la realidad 

      Corcoll López, Cristina; González Davies, María (Textos, Núm. 81 (jul./set.), p. 31-38, 2018-07)
      En los últimos años, el aprendizaje y la enseñanza de lenguas extranjeras han sufrido cambios terminológicos que indican cambios metodológicos. A menudo, llegan primero las ideas y luego la práctica, ...
    • Preschool education 

      Corcoll López, Cristina; Mitchell-Smith, Jane (Laviosa, S. i González-Davies, M. (eds.), The Routledge Handbook of Translation and Education (pp. 65-80). Routledge, 2020)
      To be authentic and effective, the multilingual turn (May 2014; Meier 2017) should begin in the early years as it is there where “key attitudes towards other languages and cultures are formed and ...
    • Switching codes in the plurilingual classroom 

      Corcoll López, Cristina; González Davies, María (ELT Journal,, 2016)
      The English as a foreign language classroom is a plurilingual setting par aexcellence since it involves at least two languages. However, plurilingual practices such as code-switching and translation ...
    • Towards a Plurilingual Development Paradigm. From Spontaneous to Informed Use of Translation in Additional Language Learning 

      González Davies, María (The Interpreter and Translator Trainer, 2014, Vol. 8, Núm. 1, 2017-04-21)
      This paper explores the role played by translation in additional language learning (ALL) as a particular example of translation in other learning contexts (TOLC), i.e. translation as used in educational ...