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Teaching modern languages at primary school

approaches and implications

First, in a psycholinguistic research study Yelland, Pollard and Mercuri (1993)
compared two matched groups of monolingual English children beginning Grade
l at primary school in Australia. ... Totally monolingual children not unnaturally
assume that the word 'table' for example somehow is part of the object that it
denotes, whereas even young children at the beginners stage of foreign-
language learning quickly pick up that this is not so, and thereby learn something
very important ...

The Modern Language Quarterly

The English beginner, of course, does the same in German man, which he calls '
maen,' and er hat, which he makes ' ha:t.' Further instances of changes in the
quality of the vowel : the o of om (homme) and li.ui (bonne) is less open than the .
< of English not and bond, so that the French o suggests the a of butter, and we
get am and bin. Diphthong for Vowel. — We have not yet explained the reason
for the change in the final vowel of the first example we took : 'taoblow.' We can
group ...

The Canadian Modern Language Review

This ability to see the world from a very different perspective from one's own and
to connect with that perspective strikes me as being a key skill for all ESL
teachers to develop, especially because our students rarely share our world view
, or we theirs. Lesson #3. Classrooms with learners at differing levels of L2
proficiency can be a real plus. For better or for worse, there is a strong tradition in
school-aged teaching to group children according to age. In those English-
speaking ...