Early Foreign Language Learning and Teaching

Marianne Nikolov is Professor Emerita of English Applied Linguistics at the University of Pécs, Hungary. Her publications include longitudinal classroom research, large-scale national assessment projects as well as case studies. She has published widely on how children learn languages and how teachers work with them. Stela Letica Krevelj is Assistant Professor and the chair of SLA and TEFL section at the Department of English, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Zagreb, Croatia. Her areas of interest are second and third language acquisition, crosslinguistic influence and linguistic awareness, and early multilingual development in instructed contexts.