Dr Sabine Little

• Books
• Journal articles
• Chapters
• Conference proceedings papers
• Datasets

Books

• Little S (2012) Staff-Student Partnerships in Higher Education. Bloomsbury Academic.
• Levy P, Little S, McKinney P, Nibbs A & Wood J (2010) The Sheffield companion to inquiry-based learning. Sheffield: CILASS: The Centre for Inquiry-based Learning in the Arts and Social Sciences. View this article in WRRO

Journal articles

• Little S, Zhou Y, Heathcote S, Shi H & Lee C (2025) We Need to Talk about Racism: Co-constructing Research with Young People from Multilingual Chinese Backgrounds. Journal of Race, Ethnicity and Politics.
• Bramley RJ, Little S & Bishop J (2025) ‘One person can’t deliver it’: exploring teachers’ agency and stance in relation to integrating an interdisciplinary subject in UK primary and secondary schools. Cogent Education, 12(1).
• Little S (2025) “There’s a Sense of Pride”: The Multilingual Children's Library as Perezhivanie. Public Library Quarterly.
• Little S, Raine H, Choo A, Joshi R, Qarni SJ, Sukri A, Horton G & Pakravesh S (2024) ‘The power to SAY what I want to and it gets written down’: Situating children's and adults' voices and silence in participatory research. British Educational Research Journal. View this article in WRRO
• Little S & Cheng K (2023) Digital funds of identity: understanding a young child’s plurilingual development through mediagrams. Innovation in Language Learning and Teaching. View this article in WRRO
• Little S (2023) ‘Half of who you are’: parent and child reflections on the emotional experiences of reversing familial language shift. International Journal of Bilingualism, 27(2), 217-231.
• Little S & Murray R (2022) The multilingual children’s library as physical and metaphorical ‘space’ within the community: practical and emotional considerations. Journal of Librarianship and Information Science.
• Cunningham C & Little S (2022) ‘Inert benevolence’ towards languages beyond English in the discourses of English primary school teachers. Linguistics and Education. View this article in WRRO
• Formosa J & Little S (2022) Prompting heritage-language engagement in English-speaking Maltese families, via a family language programme intervention. First Language.
• Parry R, Taylor L, Little S & Bradley J (2022) Editorial. Literacy, 56(1), 1-2. View this article in WRRO
• Facer K, Parry R, Taylor L, Bradley J & Little S (2022) Embracing the unpredictable effect of one person: an interview with Professor Keri Facer. Literacy, 56(1), 86-92. View this article in WRRO
• Little S & Little T (2021) An un/familiar space: children and parents as collaborators in autoethnographic family research. Qualitative Research.
• Little S (2021) Rivers of multilingual reading : exploring biliteracy experiences among 8-13-year old heritage language readers. Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development.
• Taylor L, Parry R, Bradley J & Little S (2020) Call for Papers for the Special Issue of Literacy: Storytelling in troubled times: multimodal, multilingual and multimedia. Literacy, 54(3), 158-159. View this article in WRRO
• Panzavecchia M & Little S (2020) The language of learning : Maltese teachers’ views on bilingual and multilingual primary classrooms. EuroAmerican Journal of Applied Linguistics and Languages, 7(1), 108-123.
• Little S (2019) Great Aunt Edna's vase: metaphor use in working with heritage language families. The Family Journal, 27(2), 150-155. View this article in WRRO
• Little S (2019) 'Is there an app for that?' Exploring games and apps among heritage language families. Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 40(3), 218-229. View this article in WRRO
• Little S, Golledge M, Agarwalla H, Griffiths B & McCamlie D (2019) Global teachers as global learners : intercultural teacher training in international settings. London Review of Education, 17(1). View this article in WRRO
• Little S (2018) Whose heritage? What inheritance?: Conceptualising family language identities. International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism, 23(2), 198-212. View this article in WRRO
• Nutbrown CE, Clough P, Levy R, Little S, Bishop J, Lamb T & Yamada-Rice D (2017) Families’ roles in children’s literacy in the UK throughout the 20th Century. Journal of Early Childhood Literacy, 17(4), 551-569. View this article in WRRO
• Little S & Al Wahaibi S (2017) ‘We are not as they think about us’: exploring Omani EFL learners’ ‘selves’ in digital social spaces. Multicultural Education Review, 9(3), 175-187. View this article in WRRO
• Little S (2017) A generational arc: early literacy practices among Pakistani and Indian heritage language families . International Journal of Early Years Education, 25(4), 424-438. View this article in WRRO
• Little S (2016) Promoting a collective conscience: Designing a resilient staff-student partnership model for educational development. International Journal for Academic Development , 21(4), 273-285. View this article in WRRO
• Little S (2014) Learning trajectories, violence and empowerment amongst adult basic skills learners. International Journal of Research & Method in Education, 37(4), 458-459.
• Wood J, Little S, Goldring L & Jenkins L (2011) 'The confidence to do things that I know nothing about’ – skills development through extra-curricular inquiry activity. Journal of Learning Development in Higher Education(3). View this article in WRRO
• Levy P, Aiyegbayo O & Little S (2009) Designing for inquiry-based learning with the Learning Activity Management System.. Journal of Computer Assisted Learning, 25, 238-251.
• McKinney PA, Wood J & Little S (2009) A learning development team: three developers, one pedagogy. Journal of Learning Development in Higher Education(1), 1-16. View this article in WRRO
• Little S (2008) Inquiry‐based learning and technology—supporting institutional TEL within one pedagogical context. British Journal of Educational Technology, 39(3), 422-432.
• Little S & Zhou Y () Beyond Roots and Wings: Co-constructing a framework for heritage language children's liminal and limbotic identities. Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development.
• Little S & Lahmar J () Understanding parents’ pragmatic and emotional attachments to “their” language in multilingual family contexts: exploring self-assessment options for family well-being. International Journal of Multilingualism.
• Little S () The role of the developer in institutional change. Proceedings of the International Conference on Networked Learning, 6, 245-252.
• Levy P, Little S & Aiyegbayo O () "Before You Know Where You Are, You Have a Sequence". Proceedings of the International Conference on Networked Learning, 6, 237-244.

Chapters

• Little S (2020) Social media and the use of technology in home language maintenance In Schalley AC & Eisenchlas SA (Ed.), Handbook of Home Language Maintenance and Development: Social and Affective Factors (pp. 257-273). De Gruyter Mouton View this article in WRRO
• Panzavecchia M & Little S (2019) Beyond words, Migration, Education and Translation (pp. 161-173). Routledge
• Little S (2018) Drawn in all directions: Heritage language families’ use of technology In Mascheroni G, Ponte C & Jorge A (Ed.), Digital Parenting: The Challenges for Families in the Digital Age (pp. 61-68). Goteborg: Nordicom. View this article in WRRO
• Little S & Lamb T (2016) Assessment for Autonomy, Assessment for Learning, and Learner Motivation: Fostering Learner Identities In Tsagari D (Ed.), Classroom-based Assessment in L2 Contexts
• Levy P, Little S & Whelan N (2011) Perspectives on staff-student partnership in learning, research and educational enhancement In Little S (Ed.), Staff-Student Partnerships in Higher Education (pp. 1-16). London: Continuum.
• Little S, Sharp H, Stanley L, Hayward M, Gannon-Leary P, O'Neill P & Williams J (2011) Collaborating for Staff-Student Partnerships: Experiences and Observations In Little S (Ed.), Staff-Student Partnerships in Higher Education (pp. 215-226). London: Continuum.
• Little S (2009) "Oily Rag" or "Winged Messenger", Applied E-Learning and E-Teaching in Higher Education (pp. 1-17). IGI Global
• Little S (2008) Linking collaboration to learner autonomy: peer cognizance in action In Lamb T & Jimenez-Raya M (Ed.), Pedagogy for autonomy in modern languages education: theory, practice, and teacher education Dublin: Authentik.
• Little S (2008) Supporting a dispersed community: CoP development in the Caribbean In Kimble C & Hildreth P (Ed.), Communities of Practice: Creating Learning Environments for Educators (Volume 2) (pp. 105-124). Charlotte, NC: Information Age Publishing.
• Little S & Lamb T (2006) Identitätsbildung im Fremdsprachenunterricht (‘Creation of identity in the foreign language classroom’) In Jung U (Ed.), Praktische Handreichung für Fremdsprachenlehrer (pp. 381-385). Frankfurt: Peter Lang.
• Little S () "Oily Rag" or "Winged Messenger", Applied E-Learning and E-Teaching in Higher Education IGI Global

Conference proceedings papers

• Varela-Silva MI, Castillo-Burguete MT, Azcorra H & Little S (2021) 113 Podium Mexico: Communication challenges and sociocultural experiences in bilingual context: Health outcomes' (mis) perceptions in a rural Maya community in Mexico. American Journal of Human Biology, Vol. 33(S1) (pp e23593-e23593). Virtual, 29 March 2021 - 29 March 2021. View this article in WRRO
• Little S (2006) Networked learning in the Caribbean: A case study from a developing world. Proceedings of the International Conference on e-Learning, ICEL, Vol. 2006-January (pp 267-275)

Datasets

• Marsh J, Arnseth DHC, Beech A, Bishop J, Blum-Ross DA, Chesworth E, Dýrfjörð K, Ellis H, Erstad PO, Fashanu C , Hjartarson DT et al Makerspaces in the Early Years: Current Perceptions and Practices of Early Years Practitioners, Library and Museum Educators and Makerspace Staff - A Survey.
• Marsh J, Beech A, Bishop J, Chesworth E, Ellis H, Fashanu C, Hyatt D, Kay L, Kontopodis M, Ktenidis A , Lahmar J et al UK (Sheffield) (Makerspaces in the Early Years).