The project is carried out in close collaboration with the preschools of Skärholmen in the City of Stockholm, where Head of Division Kim Lagerqvist, Quality Strategist Dijana Barun, Principal Helena Marken, and preschool teachers Josefine Jammeh and Cendresa Smakici, together with their teams, are active co-creators.

Together, researchers and preschool staff are developing a “language library” – a growing didactic resource containing methods, materials, and approaches designed to support educators in stimulating early language use among children. By observing and analyzing everyday teaching situations, the project examines which structures, routines, and forms of scaffolding best help young children put words to the world around them.

The initiative is based on the understanding that language is central to children’s learning and participation, and that the early years are crucial. The project therefore aims to contribute practical knowledge on how teaching can be developed to give children rich opportunities for one-on-one interactions with adults, to listen, and to express themselves – regardless of background or previous language experience.

With both researchers and practitioners involved, a shared arena is created where teaching challenges are discussed and solutions continuously tested. In this way, the project can strengthen children’s language development here and now, while also building sustainable didactic models for long-term development in preschool education.