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Dr Rose Drury is senior lecturer in early years at the Open University faculty of education and language studies, and formerly senior lecturer in early childhood education at the University of Worcester and principal lecturer at the University of Hertfordshire.  She has worked for the Minority Ethnic Curriculum Support Service in Hertfordshire and has extensive experience of teaching bilingual children in the early years. 

Based on her ethnographic doctoral study, the recently published Trentham book ‘Young Bilingual Learning at home and at school’, examines the experiences of three four year old bilingual children as they begin school in three English nursery classes.  Rose is a specialist in the fostering of bilingualism as a resource and making the most of the richness of experience that arises from bilingualism.