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Literacy is central to primary education. It is taught everyday and everyday, many children struggle. Teachers are under pressure to find personalized and distinctive approaches to support children whom struggle with literacy. Support is available for those whom have specific needs but not for children with needs that are harder to identify.
L2 Language Acquisition in the Classroom: Perspectives, Problems and Children's Lives
L2 Language Acquisition in the Classroom: Perspectives, Problems and Children's Lives
This Chapter
The aim of this chapter is to help all people working with or supporting primary aged children to understand what language can realistically be learnt in a classroom, some of the problems that may arise through the course of this development as well as what is actually not a problem but rather a natural part of L2 language acquisition. Finally the chapter looks at the impact this may have on children's lives outside the classroom.
Languages and the National Curriculum
Foreign languages are now a compulsory subject at Key Stage 2 (age 7–11) in local-authority maintained primary schools ...
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