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A Study of Children's Early Oral Production in the Target Language in Japanese Immersion Classrooms.
Download full textHagino, Shoko – 2001
In Australian two-way immersion programs approximately 20-40% of instruction takes place in the target language. While much has been written about such programs targeting French and German, little has been written about Japanese immersion programs. The aim of this research is to provide a better understanding of children's second language…
Descriptors: Communicative Competence (Languages), Elementary Education, Foreign Countries, Grammar
Peer reviewedHarley, Birgit; And Others – Language Learning, 1995
Investigates the relationship between age of arrival in the second-language environment and a preference for prosodic versus syntactic cues to sentence interpretation in English. The study found that older English-as-a-Second-Language learners were just as likely as the younger ones to attend to prosody rather than syntax. (43 references)…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Cantonese, Comparative Analysis, Discourse Analysis
