This report provides a comprehensive view of the two-year kindergarten program for children from Toronto's Italian community which ran from September 1973 to June 1975. The transition program and its participants are described, and the program is examined in relation to the implicit goals with the aid of comparisons with students in regular…

This report describes the first year of a two-year experimental, transitional kindergarten program for children whose mother tongue is Italian. Begun in Toronto, Canada as the result of pressure from both the ethnic community and from educators, the program is designed to run for the two years of kindergarten (junior and senior). The bilingual…