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How to support children with multilingualism in the early years

The benefit of embedding multilingualism into early years settings was the focus of a Nursery World webinar held in partnership with Polylino.

Polylino is a multilingual digital picture book service for nurseries and primary schools to use with children up to the age of seven.

The webinar focused on strategies to support and celebrate the promotion of multilingualism in early years settings and how this can encourage inclusive practice.

Multilingualism is one the rise in early years settings and is the  the norm on a global scale – more children in the world grow up to be multilingual than monolingual. The latest figures show that England may be heading in that direction – in 2021/22, 29 per cent of children in state-funded nurseries had English as an additional language

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