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Engaging with Emergent Bilinguals and Their Families in the Pre-Primary Classroom to Foster Well-Being, Learning and Inclusion
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Mary, Latisha; Young, Andrea S. – Language and Intercultural Communication, 2017
This article presents data from a longitudinal study undertaken in a pre-primary classroom of 3-4-year-old emergent bi/plurilingual children during their first year of formal schooling in France. It focuses on how the teacher's intercultural competence facilitated the emergent bilingual children's transition from home to school and fostered…
Descriptors: Preschool Children, Preschool Education, Bilingualism, Cultural Awareness
Parents in the Playground, Headscarves in the School and an Inspector Taken Hostage: Exercising Agency and Challenging Dominant Deficit Discourses in a Multilingual Pre-School in France
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Mary, Latisha; Young, Andrea – Language, Culture and Curriculum, 2018
In France, dominant monolingual discourses and teachers' lack of knowledge about bilingualism and second language acquisition often result in 'French only' policies in classrooms including in pre-school classrooms where some emergent bilingual children speak a language other than the language of schooling and very little or no French. These…
Descriptors: Multilingualism, Preschool Education, Bilingualism, Knowledge Base for Teaching