Review of Policy and politics in global primary English; Author: Janet Enever; Publisher: Oxford University Press, 2018; ISBN: 9780194200547; Pages: 196
Journal Title: Studies in Second Language Learning and Teaching - Year 2019, Vol 9, Issue 2
Abstract
Teaching foreign languages to children, English in particular, has been popular in countries aspiring to benefit from the global economy. With the fall of the Iron Curtain nearly three decades ago, Central-European countries such as Poland, Croatia and Hungary, to name just a few, recognized that competence in foreign languages (FLs) could be the key to catching up with the West. From that time on a substantial amount of research on child foreign language learning (FLL) has been conducted in those countries (e.g., Nikolov, 2009; Nikolov & Mihaljević Djigunović, 2006, 2011). Despite the realization that early instruction does not guarantee FL success, early teaching of English is still a widespread global phenomenon, including such diverse contexts as China, Chile, Slovenia, Italy, and Columbia, among others.
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