Plaidoyer pour le bilinguisme
Year: 1996
Type: article
Abstract: Speaking up for Bi-Lingual Schools. This plea in favour of bilingual teaching does not aim at increasing the numeric superiority of bilingual speakers but at improving radically the results of language teaching. It is interesting to see how bilingual education can be combined with an early initiation to foreign languages in primary schools. France and Great Britain have had a very similar experience of that formula in the 1970s. Psycholinguists confirm how easy it is for children under nine to learn and handle several languages. This is why all great specialists advocate an early stage of bilingual training. Concrete examples, like that of Alban and his grandfather, corroborate this conviction. It would be easy in France to set up bilingual education rapidly, at least from the first year at primary school, at the cost of an appropriate training of primary school teachers who now all hold a university degree.
Source: Cahiers Charles V
Author: Denis Girard
Language: English
Subfield: Linguistics and Language
Field: Social Sciences
Domain: Social Sciences
SDG: Quality education
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W2972707166