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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
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. 2
Date: 1925
Pages: 176-181
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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