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Peer reviewedKennedy, Dora F.; De Lorenzo, William E. – Foreign Language Annals, 1994
Makes a case for a sequential approach to teaching foreign languages middle schools and suggests that in the middle school must encompass both the goals of proficiency and exploration; the integrated exploratory model is more compatible with child development; exploratory can be a launching pad into sequential courses; after an exploratory…
Descriptors: Child Development, Language Proficiency, Middle Schools, Second Language Instruction
Woodward, Virginia A. – 1982
Evidence from the language use of young children is used to question accepted notions of language development and instruction in the three papers in this compilation. The first paper, "Young Children Challenge the Belief That Language Needs to be Taught Sequentially," challenges the notion of sequential development in which oral language…
Descriptors: Child Development, Child Language, Early Childhood Education, Language Acquisition
