1. List of contributors; 2. Introduction; 3. Child's play? Second language acquisition and the younger learner in context (by Philp, Jenefer); 4. Section 1. Characteristics of child SLA; 5. Defining child second language acquisition, defining roles for L2 instruction (by Nicholas, Howard); 6. Perspectives on second language acquisition at different ages (by Dimroth, Christine); 7. Section 2. Instructed language learning in the early years of education; 8. When the gate opens: The interaction between social and linguistic goals in child second language development (by Philp, Jenefer); 9. Developing conversational skills in a second language: Language learning affordances in a multiparty classroom setting (by Cekaite, Asta); 10. The impact of teacher input, guidance and feedback on ESL children's task-based interactions (by Oliver, Rhonda); 11. Negotiation of meaning in the classroom: Does it enhance reading comprehension? (by Van den Branden, Kris); 12. Section 3. Instructed language learning in later years of education; 13. Incidental focus on form and learning outcomes with young foreign language classroom learners (by Alcon-Soler, Eva); 14. Speeding up acquisition of his and her: Explicit L1/L2 contrasts help (by White, Joanna); 15. Section 4. Child SLA at home and in the community; 16. Acquiring Japanese as a second language (JSL) in a naturalistic context: A longitudinal study of a young child from a Processability Theory (PT) perspective (by Iwasaki, Junko); 17. Learning a second language in the family (by Mitchell, Rosamond); 18. Home-school connections for international adoptees: Repetition in parent-child interactions (by Fogle, Lyn Wright); 19. Language transfer in child SLA: A longitudinal case study of a sequential bilingual (by Kwon, Eun-Young); 20. Index