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Promoting Positive Attitudes towards Foreign Language Learning: A New Zealand Initiative
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East, Martin – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2009
This paper reports on the effectiveness of a tailored undergraduate course at a tertiary institution in New Zealand constructed to challenge, and encourage changes to, monolingual "English-only" attitudes. The course was designed to provide knowledge and promote understanding of the phenomenon of English as a global language, and the…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Measures (Individuals), Monolingualism, Foreign Countries
An Investigation into the Practices of a Class of Field-Based Student Educators Working in Linguistically Diverse Early Childhood Centres
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Schofield, Anne – Australian Journal of Early Childhood, 2007
Twenty early childhood student educators were surveyed on their teaching practices when working with children learning English as a second language in early childhood centres in New Zealand. The bilingual and trilingual participants stated that their practices were based on their own language learning experiences, theories learned in class and…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Young Children, Monolingualism, Foreign Countries