If You Want UDL to Stick, Start with Early Childhood Education Leadership
May 1, 2026Informal Multilingual Learner Resource List – 2026
By Karen Nemeth, Ed.M. www.languagecastle.com
Videos:
The Gift of Language (video by Atlanta Speech School) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WOFMDspl2tA
The Young Dual Language Learner: 20 Short Videos from Teaching at the Beginning
http://www.youtube.com/teachatborg
Cárdenas-Hagan, E. (2020) Literacy Foundations for English Learners: A Comprehensive Guide to Evidence Based Instruction, Brookes Publishing and video focusing on chapter 3: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FlpOcJhnFHo&list=PLCkBP2csbOsvZwKQYhJx3sEhBno2byysd&index=3
Online and print resources:
Banse, H.W. (2021) Dual language learners and four areas of early childhood
learning and development: what do we know and what do we need to learn?, Early Child Development and Care, 191:9, 1347-1360
Bitetti, D., Vail, C., López, L.M., Hammer, C.S. (2025) Language Dominance and the
School Readiness of Preschool-Age Spanish-English Dual Language Learners, Early Education and Development, 36(6), 1278–1297.
Brillante, P. and Nemeth K. (2027), Universal Design for Learning in the Early
Childhood Classroom: Teaching Children of All Languages, Cultures, and
Abilities, , 3rd edition, Routledge Publishing
Durán, L.K., López, L., Wackerle-Hollman, A.K., Miranda, A., Sawyer, B., & Hammer,
C.S., (2023) Look Who’s Talking Now: Examining Language Use with Dual Language Learners in Preschool Classrooms, The Journal of the National Association for Bilingual Education, 46(1-2), 25-46.
Kerch, C.J., Donovan, C.A., Hardin, J., & Babalola, A.E. (2025) Exploring pre-service teachers’ self- efficacy and experiences teaching emergent bilingual children. Journal of Early Childhood Teacher Education, 46(3), 494-507
López, L., Arch, D.A.N., Foster, M.E., Nylund-Gibson, K. (2025) Exploring Cross-
Domain Relations in Language and Literacy Profiles of Latine Bilingual Language Learners in the U.S., Reading Research Quarterly, 60, e70072
Nemeth, K. (2021), Educating Young Children with Diverse Languages and Cultures, Routledge
Publishing
Nemeth, K. (2026) Many Languages, One Classroom, 2nd edition, Gryphon House.
Partika, A. & Park, C. (2025) https://www.sri.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/10/Portraits-of-Dual-Language-Learner-Communities-in-Head-Start.pdf
Reid, J.L., Scott-Little, C, & Kagan, S.L. (2019) Diverse Children, Uniform Standards:
Using Early Learning and Development Standards in Multicultural Classrooms, Young Children, 74(5).
Serafini, E.J., Rozell, N., & Winsler, A. (2022) Academic and English language
outcomes for DLLs as a function of school bilingual education model: The
role of two-way immersion and home language support, International
Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism, 25(2), 552-570.
Soto-Boykin, X., Aponte, G. Y., Meek, S. (2025, August). The Science of Reading and
Dual Language Education: Supporting Multilingual Learners’ Language and
Literacy Development. The Children’s Equity Project. Arizona State University
https://cep.asu.edu/resources/TheScienceofReadingandDualLanguageEducation
Huang, T., Zhang, C., & Coe, C. (2022) Instructional Practices and Supports of Emergent Multilingual Learners (EMLs) in Universal Prekindergarten (UPK) Classrooms in New York City (NYC),
https://www.air.org/sites/default/files/First-5-DLL-Pilot-Study-PD-Full-Brief-December-2020.pdf
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/10901027.2025.2540040
