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Marianne Nikolov; Jelena Mihaljevic Djigunovic – Language Teaching, 2023
This article offers insights into trends found in 74 empirical studies on teaching and learning a foreign language (FL) in pre-primary schools in 25 countries. The emerging picture is like that of primary-school programs: most are implemented in English, mostly owing to parents' enthusiasm rather than evidence on long term FL benefits. Researchers…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Preschool Children, Preschool Education
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Hunt, Emily; Nang, Charn; Meldrum, Suzanne; Armstrong, Elizabeth – Language, Speech, and Hearing Services in Schools, 2022
Purpose: Multilingual children are disproportionately represented on speech pathology caseloads, in part due to the limited ability of traditional language assessments to accurately capture multilingual children's language abilities. This systematic review evaluates the evidence for identification of language disorder in multilingual children…
Descriptors: Multilingualism, Speech Language Pathology, Language Tests, Diagnostic Tests
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Nag, Sonali; Vagh, Shaher Banu; Dulay, Katrina May; Snowling, Margaret J. – Review of Education, 2019
The general consensus in the field is that when the home language is different from the language of instruction in school then children's literacy attainments could slow down. In this 26-year review of the literature on children's literacy attainments in low- to middle-income countries, 40 correlational, ethnographic and intervention studies…
Descriptors: Native Language, Language Usage, Family Environment, Educational Environment