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Second language literacy instruction for pre-primary learners in Hong Kong: Using stories, songs, and games
- Second language literacy instruction for pre-primary learners in Hong Kong: Using stories, songs, and games
- English literacy instruction for Chinese speakers
- Singapore
- Palgrave Macmillan
- 2019
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- Hong Kong
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- 1997.7 onwards
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- Primary Education
- The global trend of learning English as an L2 in the early years is identifiable in Hong Kong. Cognitively immature pre-primary learners face the dual challenges of coping with formal learning in low L2 exposure contexts. This chapter argues for a specific approach that better fits the learning characteristics and abilities of pre-primary learners who learn an L2 differently from that of older learners. The approach recommends the use of informal instructional strategies like using quality stories together with rich vocabulary activities in the form of games and songs for vocabulary learning and phonological awareness which are essential building blocks for L2 literacy skills. Evidence-based examples from research are cited to show their effect on very young learners’ motivation and interest in learning an L2. Copyright © 2019 The Author(s).
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- English
- Book Chapters
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- 9789811366529
- https://bibliography.lib.eduhk.hk/en/bibs/664deab2
- 2019-11-01
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