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Early Childhood Bilingualism in the Montessori Children's House: Guessable Context and the Planned Environment
Available from: ERIC
Bilingual education, Bilingualism, Language experience approach in education
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Abstract/Notes: The language immersion approach of the Intercultural Montessori School (Oak Park, Illinois) for children aged 2-6 years is described and discussed. An introductory section gives background information on early work with immersion by Maria Montessori, a personal experience leading to the school's establishment, and the response of language and education professionals, the public, and parents to the concept of preschool immersion. Subsequent sections discuss common patterns in the students' language learning experience at the school and the developmental stages the learners went through as the experiment progressed: pre-production; early production; speech emergence; and intermediate fluency. Anecdotal information about specific students and events are used for illustration. Observations about comprehensible input and the Montessori manipulables, whole language, and other instructional strategies are included. Specific recommendations are made for content and classroom procedures in early childhood immersion, based on this experience. The paper concludes with reflections on the potential of this environment for development of bilingualism.
Language: English
Published: Oak Park, Illinois: InterCultura Montessori School, 1997
Article
Bilingualism and Sensitive Periods from a Phonetician's Point of View
Available from: Atlante Montessori
Publication: The Call of Education / L'Appel de l'Éducation / La chiamata dell'Educazione: Psycho-pedagogical Journal (International Organ of the Montessori Movement), vol. 2, no. 3
Date: 1925
Pages: 176-181
Bilingualism, Cognitive development, Maria Montessori - Philosophy
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Language: English
Article
Early Childhood Bilingualism in the Montessori Children's House
Publication: Montessori Life, vol. 10, no. 2
Date: 1998
Pages: 37–48
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Language: English
ISSN: 1054-0040
Article
Interaction Between Bilingualism and Cognitive Growth
Publication: Montessori Life, vol. 5, no. 1
Date: 1993
Pages: 33–35
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Language: English
ISSN: 1054-0040
Article
Second Language Corner for Children’s House: A Practitioner–Researcher Journey Into Bilingualism in Montessori Education
Available from: University of Kansas Libraries
Publication: Journal of Montessori Research, vol. 7, no. 1
Date: 2021
Pages: 67-82
Americas, Bilingualism, Central America, Latin America and the Caribbean, Mexico, Montessori method of education
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Abstract/Notes: This work reports, from a qualitative research perspective, the development of an English Corner project for a preschool Children’s House classroom in central Mexico over the course of a 3-year period. It shows the transition of a language specialist over six consecutive periods of work, from a traditional understanding and practice of teaching English as a second language to young learners into a more comprehensive one of the Montessori Method. The analysis of my own practice is used to recover insights through a reflective process with the intention to develop a second language (L2) Montessori program for 3- to 6-year-olds that aligns better with Montessori pedagogy. Variables such as instruction time, setting, group constitution, materials, and teaching and learning strategies allowed for certain aspects to arise as leading points of interest for the focus of the analysis and the methodological and pedagogical adaptations that followed each period. This paper is an attempt to fill the gap between the need to deliver a second language effectively in Montessori education and the lack of guidance for doing it the Montessori way; it is especially for practitioners who do not have a Montessori background but also for Montessori-trained teachers for whom more specific preparation would aid their practice. I also hope to stimulate further research in the field of second language acquisition and multilingualism in Montessori education at every level of education.
Language: English
ISSN: 2378-3923
Article
Bilingualism and False Diagnosis
Available from: ISSUU
Publication: Montessori Leadership
Date: Dec 2012
Pages: 14
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Language: English