Language Awareness and/or Language Learning in French Primary Schools Today  

Oleh:

Young, Andrea ; Helot, Christine

Jenis: Article from Journal - ilmiah internasional
Dalam koleksi: Language Awareness (Full Text) vol. 12 no. 3&4 (2003), page 234-246.
Topik: language; education; awareness; culture; diversity; minority
Fulltext: 12.3&4.234-246.pdf (214.7KB)

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The paper presents the language policies being implemented in French primary schools under the present educational reform and considers how they tackle the question of sociocultural and linguistic pluralism. It questions the choice of teaching one foreignlanguage froma very earlyage at kindergartenrather than opting for amodel of language awareness which takes into account the various languages spoken outside school by a growing number of children whose bilingualism and biculturalism remains ignored and unexploited. The different possible translations of the term‘language awareness’ in French are discussed and one language awareness project being carriedout over three years in a primary school inAlsace are presentedin order to illustrate how languages of different status can be legitimised early on in primary school and how language awareness can be complementary to language learning.

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