Readiness for school of children having attended language immersion kindergarten in their teachers' and parents' opinions

Kukk, Airi; Õun, Tiia; Ugaste, Aino

doi:10.1080/09669760.2014.900475

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“…Even though the program was considered successful, children readiness for school was still questioned. A three-year study was conducted by Kukk, Õunb, and Ugasteb (2014) and the results indicated that readiness for school of the children having completed the early language immersion programme was very good.…”

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A Descriptive Study of Early Childhood Education Steering Documents in Finland, Sweden and Australia around Language Immersion Programmes

Garvis

Harj-Luukkainen²,

Flynn

2018

Pac Early Child Educ Res Assoc

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Being able to speak different languages is important in today's global world to allow communication and understanding. Countries may vary in how they support early language learning with immersion programmes. This paper specifically explores the steering documents in Finland, Sweden, and Australia for children attending early childhood education settings (children aged birth to five years). A content analysis was used to explore patterns. The descriptive comparison allows similarities and differences across the countries to emerge. As a result, a table describing the different immersion and monolingual approaches in respective country is presented. The paper concludes with a broader discussion on steering documents in early childhood education in regards to young children's rights to learning languages and attending different immersion programmes within early childhood.

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confidence: 99%