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Carmel, Rivi – Language Teaching Research, 2022
English, the global lingua franca, enjoys a growing status worldwide. The high status of English is also linked to the increasing interest in teaching English to young learners (EYL), and is reciprocally linked to complex political, cultural and social forces. Research on the advantages of learning English at a young age is controversial and…
Descriptors: Parent Attitudes, Parents, Young Children, Grade 1
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Frigolé, Neus; Tresserras, Eva – International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism, 2023
The aim of this article is to explore how the teaching of English as a foreign language is planned in three plurilingual state schools in Catalonia. We carried out classroom observations (first and second grade of primary education) and interviewed the English teachers who teach these lessons and the headmasters of the three schools. The use of…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Foreign Countries
Manqian Zhao – ProQuest LLC, 2022
The rapid growth of Mandarin Chinese and English dual-language (DL) programs and the differences between these two languages have fostered the need to investigate the early literacy performance of young students in a Mandarin/English DL program. This study used the interactive transfer framework (Chung et al., 2019) to understand the Mandarin and…
Descriptors: Bilingualism, Literacy, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning
Wink, Joan; Garcia, Herman S. – 1992
This paper summarizes an ethnographic study of three kindergarten and three first grade bilingual classrooms which investigated the impact on the school community of two conditions: (1) when teachers and staff were trained in cooperative methods for teaching and learning a second language; and (2) when the school initiated and implemented a parent…
Descriptors: Acculturation, Advisory Committees, Bilingual Education, Cooperative Learning