Journal Articles
Enhancing English among second language learners: The pre-school years
- Enhancing English among second language learners: The pre-school years
- Early Years: An International Journal of Research and Development, 26(3), 279-293, 2006
- Routledge
- 2006
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- Hong Kong
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- 1997.7 onwards
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- Pre-Primary Education
- Informed by knowledge of linguistics, research findings in the areas of monolingual and bilingual acquisition, dyslexia and speech therapy clinical practice, five factors are proposed to argue that the acquisition of English by young non-native learners can be enhanced by learning activities which take into account factors of developmental sequence in language acquisition, language-specific properties, the relationship between oral and written language, the what-to-learn-first issue and the quality of the language input. Proper language goals can be set and appropriate activities designed, only if the language input provider interacts with a learner in a concrete activity while being sensitive to the developmental trajectory of monolingual speaking children, the development of the less dominant language in a bilingual child, the prosodic and phonological differences between the learner's mother tongue and the target language, the importance of phonological awareness which defines dyslexia, the use of non-abstract language structures grounded in concrete lexical items in the early stage of language acquisition and the strategy of expanding learners' utterance by one element as used in speech therapy.[Copyright of Early Years: An International Journal of Research and Development is the property of Routledge. Full article may be available at the publisher's website: http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/09575140600898456]
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- English
- Journal Articles
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- 09575146
- https://bibliography.lib.eduhk.hk/bibs/ad4a7ce0
- 2010-11-24
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