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Shanker, Sandhya; Kraemer, Angelika – Learning Languages, 2014
From previous research on second language acquisition and early language learning, educators know that young children have a cognitive advantage to learning a foreign language over other age groups (e.g., Garcia-Sierra et al.; Hyltenstam and Abrahamsson; Singleton and Ryan; Werker et al.). More recently, an increase in functional benefits for…
Descriptors: Role of Education, Criterion Referenced Tests, Global Approach, Second Language Learning
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Rosenbusch, Marcia Harmon; Sorensen, Laurie – Learning Languages, 2004
The experience described by Kay Hoag, Advocacy Chair of the National Network for Early Language Learning (NNELL), exemplifies the threat of program elimination and/or cutbacks that elementary school foreign language programs across the nation experienced with increased frequency during the 2002-2003 academic year. Reports of these threats…
Descriptors: Elementary School Students, Elementary School Teachers, Second Language Learning, FLES
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Keatley, Catharine – Learning Languages, 2004
In this paper, the authors review all the Federal programs that support, at least partially, foreign language education for non-government language students, and they calculated the maximum amount that these programs spend on foreign language education. The Department of Education (ED) receives the most funding for these projects with total…
Descriptors: Federal Programs, Resource Centers, Budgets, Expenditures