Building multilingual learning environments in early years education

Building multilingual learning environments in early years education

This paper examines the early language development of children with particular reference to the importance of personal multilingualism and the reasons why this should be promoted in early years education. It is argued that such an objective is best achieved by building multilingual learning environm...

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Main Author: Martin Dodman
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: University of Bologna 2016-07-01
Series:Ricerche di Pedagogia e Didattica
Subjects:
language
learning
early years education
environmental and personal multilingualism
Online Access:https://rpd.unibo.it/article/view/6207
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spelling doaj-9e29a46b5d3b4f738b0a9b114013108b2020-11-24T20:59:41ZengUniversity of BolognaRicerche di Pedagogia e Didattica1970-22212016-07-0111111810.6092/issn.1970-2221/62075639Building multilingual learning environments in early years educationMartin DodmanThis paper examines the early language development of children with particular reference to the importance of personal multilingualism and the reasons why this should be promoted in early years education. It is argued that such an objective is best achieved by building multilingual learning environments at the level of nursery and infant schools. The characteristics of such environments are described and ways of evaluating projects designed to build them are presented.https://rpd.unibo.it/article/view/6207languagelearningearly years educationenvironmental and personal multilingualism
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Building multilingual learning environments in early years education
Ricerche di Pedagogia e Didattica
language
learning
early years education
environmental and personal multilingualism
author_facet Martin Dodman
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title Building multilingual learning environments in early years education
title_short Building multilingual learning environments in early years education
title_full Building multilingual learning environments in early years education
title_fullStr Building multilingual learning environments in early years education
title_full_unstemmed Building multilingual learning environments in early years education
title_sort building multilingual learning environments in early years education
publisher University of Bologna
series Ricerche di Pedagogia e Didattica
issn 1970-2221
publishDate 2016-07-01
description This paper examines the early language development of children with particular reference to the importance of personal multilingualism and the reasons why this should be promoted in early years education. It is argued that such an objective is best achieved by building multilingual learning environments at the level of nursery and infant schools. The characteristics of such environments are described and ways of evaluating projects designed to build them are presented.
topic language
learning
early years education
environmental and personal multilingualism
url https://rpd.unibo.it/article/view/6207
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