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Young, Andrea; Helot, Christine – Language Awareness, 2003
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 foreign language from a very early age at kindergarten rather than opting for a model of language…
Descriptors: Metalinguistics, Biculturalism, Educational Change, Elementary Schools