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When Learning a Second Language Means Losing the First.
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The authors found that the loss of a primary language, particularly when it is the only language spoken by parents, can be very costly to the children, their families, and to society as a whole.About:
This article is published in Early Childhood Research Quarterly.The article was published on 1991-09-01. It has received 1236 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: First language & Heritage language learning.read more
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Identity and language learning : gender, ethnicity and educational change
TL;DR: Fact and fiction in language learning researching identity and language learning the world of adult immigrant language learners Eva and Mai - old heads on young shoulders mothers, migration, and language learner acquisition theory revisited claiming the right to speak in classrooms & communities as mentioned in this paper.
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Diversity, Group Identity, and Citizenship Education in a Global Age
TL;DR: This article argued that citizenship education should be reformulated to reflect the home cultures and languages of students from diverse groups, and argued that group rights can help individuals to attain structural equality, and discussed the implications of his analysis for transforming citizenship education.
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Interpreting the Early Language Trajectories of Children From Low-SES and Language Minority Homes: Implications for Closing Achievement Gaps
TL;DR: Declaring all developmental trajectories to be equally valid would not change the robust relation between English oral language skills and academic achievement and would not help children with poor English skills to be successful in school.
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A Synthesis of Research on Language of Reading Instruction for English Language Learners
TL;DR: This article reviewed experimental studies comparing bilingual and English-only reading programs for English language learners and concluded that existing evidence favors bilingual approaches, especially paired bilingual strategies that teach reading in the na...
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Learning to Read and Write: Developmentally Appropriate Practices for Young Children
TL;DR: The International Reading Association (IRA) and the National Association for the Education of Young Children (NAEYC) as discussed by the authors formulated a position statement regarding early literacy development and made recommendations for teaching practices and public policy.
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Age, Rate and Eventual Attainment in Second Language Acquisition.
TL;DR: This article found that older children acquire faster than younger children (in early stages of morphological and syntactic development where time and exposure are held constant) and that acquirers who begin natural exposure to second languages during childhood generally achieve higher second language proficiency than those beginning as adults.
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Age Differences in the Pronunciation of Foreign Sounds
TL;DR: Two kinds of data are presented which suggest that younger children are not better than older children and adults in learning a foreign language, and the ability to imitate foreign words under controlled input conditions increased linearly with age.
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The interlanguage hypothesis extended to children1
TL;DR: The authors showed that the IL hypothesis can be extended from adult second-language acquisition settings to those non-simultaneous child language acquisition settings where the major sociolinguistic variables is the absence of peers who are native speakers of the target language (TL).