Enhancing English among second language learners: The pre-school years

Enhancing English among second language learners: The pre-school years

• Wong, Richard Kwok Shing Hong Kong Institute of Education

Early Years: An International Journal of Research and Development, 26(3), 279-293, 2006

Routledge

2006

• G Curriculum, Teaching & Learning: Specific Disciplines
  • GB English Language
• A Human Growth & Development
  • AB Cognitive & Language Development, Perceptual & Intellectual Development

Language Dominance Written Language Oral Language Foreign Countries Dyslexia Phonological Awareness Speech Therapy Linguistic Input English (Second Language) Second Language Learning Monolingualism Preschool Children Bilingualism Learning Activities Nursery Rhymes Hong Kong

• Hong Kong

• 1997.7 onwards

• 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.
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• 10.1080/09575140600898456

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2010-11-24