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Schwartz, Mila; Hijazy, Sujoud; Deeb, Inas – European Early Childhood Education Research Journal, 2021
The current study was part of a large project focusing on bilingual development in the preschool classroom context. Its aim was to theorize free play as a social and language learning activity that provides opportunities for young learners to move towards second language production. The role of free play for language development in general, and…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Preschool Education, Preschool Children, Bilingual Education
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Schwartz, Mila – Reading and Writing: An Interdisciplinary Journal, 2014
The aim of this exploratory study was to examine the role of the "First Language First" model for preschool bilingual education in the development of vocabulary depth. The languages studied were Russian (L1) and Hebrew (L2) among bilingual children aged 4-5 years in Israel. According to this model, the children's first language of…
Descriptors: Bilingualism, Semitic Languages, Russian, Preschool Children