The present book explores how modern board gaming and language teaching can be beneficially combined to achieve optimal impact. Modern board games have a lot to offer language learners and teachers, and they should play a much more significant role in what has been labelled "Content and Language Integrated Learning" or CLIL. Modern board games require cooperation, problem-solving, active discovery, interpretation and analysis. Most importantly, modern board games allow students to explore a hypothetical environment without the risk of language errors. The key ingredient of the present book is "game-based learning and teaching theory", or GBLTT, a theoretical framework which measures learning outcomes based on gaming and learning procedures. GBLTT is focused on balancing information and gameplay as well as putting a focus on the ability of each learner to retain language competence and to put their subject to realistic situations.

This book provides an in-depth look on Content and Language Integrated Learning (CLIL) and Early Childhood Education (ECE), two domains where major joint research is needed. By taking stock on theoretical underpinnings, it explores the ideal conditions for early additional language acquisition in preschool contexts through CLIL with a learner-centered approach grounded in developmentally appropriate practices (DEP) and an emphasis on the importance of play, cognition, holistic content adaptation and social-emotional learning. The book also offers a comprehensive view of how this methodological approach has already set a clear path on Pre-primary education internationally. Finally, it offers insights into CLIL pedagogies as related and adapted to Pre-primary education, resources and materials for very young learners and practical implementation from the classroom. By providing a solid empirical background on Pre-primary CLIL, along with appropriate methodological issues and practices, this book serves as a key resource to students, practitioners, academics as well as teacher educators and policy-makers in international contexts.

This A4 book contains 100 ESL board games for kids and beginner English language learners. There are 5 board game styles on 20 ESL topics that kids and beginner English language learners typically study. These board games are ready to use and photocopier friendly. Simply copy and distribute a board game to students in class for a fun, quick, and no prep ESL classroom game which is guaranteed to get your students speaking English using the target language.The 20 ESL topics for kids that are included in this board games book are:Action Verbs, Animals, Classroom Objects, Clothes, Days Of The Week, Family, Feelings, Food, Jobs, Months, Parts Of The Body, Places Around Town, Plural Nouns, Prepositions, Present Progressive Tense, Rooms Of The House, School Subjects, Transportation, Weather, and 'What Time is it?'All board games in this book are black and white and can be easily photocopied for use in your English class.