Publications

Publication details [#59032]

Baker, Colin, Tina Hickey and Gwyn Lewis. 2014. How deep is your immersion? Policy and practice in Welsh-medium preschools with children from different language backgrounds. International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism 17 (2) : 215–234.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

foreign language teaching | kindergarten | language maintenance | language of instruction | language proficiency

Language as a subject

Welsh

Place, Publisher

Routledge

Journal WWW

www.multilingual-matters.com/multi/onlinej.asp

Annotation

This article discusses how early immersion educators in Welsh-medium preschool nursery groups (cylchoedd meithrin), manage to promote both L1 Welsh minority language maintenance and Welsh L2 acquisition whilst offering high-quality mixed group education.