Publications

Publication details [#60773]

Scheffler, Paweł. 2015. Introducing very young children to English as a foreign language. International Journal of Applied Linguistics 25 (1) : 1–22.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

contextualization | creativity | foreign language acquisition | foreign language teaching | toddler

Language as a subject

English

Place, Publisher

Wiley-Blackwell

Journal WWW

www.ingenta.com/journals/browse/bpl/ijal

Annotation

This study suggests that an informal bilingual -in this case Polish-English- approach, in which children merely meet with a foreign language (here: English) at home may be more efficient than monolingual English foreign language teaching in a formal school context.