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Supporting Bilingual Children in Early Childhood

BrigitteL — Sat, 05 Dec 2009 09:56:09 +0000

This very informative article is published by Learning Links, an “Australian charity and non-profit organisation formed to help children who have learning disabilities, difficulties and developmental delays, and their families”.

http://www.learninglinks.org.au/information-sheets.htm

First Language Maintenance and Acquisition of English

BrigitteL — Sat, 05 Dec 2009 04:03:28 +0000

The link below leads to references on the role of maintaining a learner’s first language in relation to the acquisition of English.

http://www.tesol.org.au/Issues/Place-of-First-Language

“The Australian and international TESOL fields argue that the maintenance and ongoing development of a student’s first language (L1) provides learners with a solid base from which to acquire an additional language.

Awareness of the positive influences associated with supporting L1 development is particularly important for young learners. Older learners actively draw on knowledge of their first language and its structure, conceptual and content knowledge held in this language and their L1 literacy skills when learning a subsequent language. However younger learners do not yet have this depth of knowledge to draw on and without appropriate support they are at risk of failing to acquire full proficiency in either their first language or the main language of school instruction.”

Thank you, Mandy Scott, for this information.

Babies’ Language Learning Starts in the Womb

BrigitteL — Sun, 08 Nov 2009 01:09:36 +0000

Here’s an interesting bit of research to follow up on:

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/11/091105092607.htm

Online Parent / Carer Survey

admin — Fri, 05 Sep 2008 00:00:41 +0000

The online survey prepared by the Languages Action Alliance for parents / guardians / care givers of children and/or parents-to-be to identify their attitudes, experiences and needs relevant to the support of language learning is now live.

Click here to take the survey

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