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Affect Trumps Age: A Person-in-Context Relational View of Age and Motivation in SLA
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Pfenninger, Simone E.; Singleton, David – Second Language Research, 2016
Recent findings (see, for example, Muñoz and Singleton, 2011) indicate that age of onset is not a strong determinant of instructed foreign language (FL) learners' achievement and that age is intricately connected with social and psychological factors shaping the learner's overall FL experience. The present study, accordingly, takes a…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Second Language Learning, English (Second Language), Age
Experience d'apprentissage bilingue precoce: Resultats des eleves de Monthey et de Sion a la fin de la 2e Anee Primaire, Annee 1998/99 (Experience of Preschool Bilingual Education: Results from Students in Monthey and Sion at the End of Second Grade, 1998/99 Year).
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Bregy, Anne-Lore; Brohy, Claudine; Fuchs, Gaby – 2000
During the 1994-1995 school year, the town of Sierre/Siders implemented and evaluated the first bilingual kindergarten class in the Valais canton of Switzerland. The following year the towns of Sion/Sitten and Monthey in the same canton also launched bilingual education classes. In these bilingual classes German is introduced as a second language…
Descriptors: Bilingual Education Programs, Communicative Competence (Languages), Foreign Countries, French