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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
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Helot, Christine; Young, Andrea – Language, Culture and Curriculum, 2005
This paper will present an analysis of the notion of cultural and linguistic diversity in the new curriculum for primary schools in France (MEN, 2003). First, it will explain how this notion is linked both to a wider choice of languages and to the teaching of one foreign or regional language only. We shall argue that, despite the wide theoretical…
Descriptors: Cultural Pluralism, Foreign Countries, Second Language Instruction, Cultural Awareness