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Multilingual and monolingual children in the primary-level language classroom: individual differences and perceptions of foreign language learning
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Existing research suggests that being multilingual may convey advantages for additional language learning. However, little research to date has examined the role of multiple languages in primary-school classroom settings and in foreign language learning in particular. We investigated the learning of French by children with English as an additional language (EAL) aged 8–9 in England. The EAL children and their monolingual peers were tested on their achievement in French, their metalinguistic awareness and associative memory. Their attitudes to languages and language learning were assessed. Two French classes were observed and teachers interviewed in order to document their approach to teaching French to a mixed-language class and their perceptions of the multilingual nature of the classroom. Our findings suggest that the EAL children’s multilingualism is not drawn upon as a potentially facilitative tool. English appears to be the only medium and the primary aim of instruction, with other languages assigned a subordinate role. The EAL children performed similarly to their monolingual peers on all measures, with level of English correlated with most measures. We argue that while an egalitarian treatment of all children is clearly desirable, it would be equally desirable to utilise the presence of other languages as a resource.
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LB1501 Primary Education; P Philology. Linguistics
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URL: http://repository.essex.ac.uk/22076/ http://repository.essex.ac.uk/22076/1/Multilingual_and_monolingual_children_in_the_primary-level_language_classroom-_Individual_differences_and_perceptions_of_foreign_language_learning_.pdf https://doi.org/10.1080/09571736.2018.1471616
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Learning French in the UK setting: Policy, classroom engagement and attainable learning outcomes
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Spanish Imperfect revisited: exploring L1 influence in the reassembly of imperfective features onto new L2 forms
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Spanish Imperfect revisited: exploring L1 influence in the reassembly of imperfective features onto new L2 forms
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The importance of task variability in the design of learner corpora for SLA research
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The role of dynamic contrasts in the L2 acquisition of Spanish past tense morphology
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The role of dynamic contrasts in the L2 acquisition of Spanish past tense morphology
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The role of dynamic contrasts in the L2 acquisition of Spanish past tense morphology
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Testing the predictions of the feature-assembly hypothesis: evidence from the L2 acquisition of Spanish aspect morphology
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Testing the predictions of the feature-assembly hypothesis: evidence from the L2 acquisition of Spanish aspect orphology
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Testing the predictions of the Feature Assembly Hypothesis (FAH): evidence from the L2 acquisition of Spanish aspect morphology
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