The Early Bird Gets The Word Games and Play: Creating a Context For Authentic Language Learning

Early foreign language teaching has recently been made compulsory in Finland, making this an area open to development and innovation where policy - makers teachers play a significant role creating new kinds of learning environments, operating cultures, pedagogy for learning. This article discusses the early landscape context theory, initial education as well functional The cornerstone study is Contextual Pedagogical approach Learning, which creates bridge between theory practice learning, inspiring stimulating basis later Language precondition thinking. involved all activities presented school every teacher “(the Finnish National Board Education 2014, 127). In we focus on idea, core national curriculum. We attempt explain environments teaching, operational culture, pedagogical solutions within theoretical frame reference another language. challenges that support authentic experiences, have become still more demanding today's rapidly changing world.