Foreign language teaching and learning in pre-schools
1995-(ongoing)
L1 German-speaking children are followed as to how they learn English as
a foreign language in a bilingual preschool starting at age 3. The
school is organized on the basis of the person-language bond, one of the
two teachers per group being a native speaker of English. The preschool
follows the regular curriculum. After preschool, English is continued
via immersion throughout the primary grades.
Principal collaborators: K. Westphal, C. Tiefenthal, T. Maibaum, K. Lauer, N. Hansen, C. Immhof, C. Berger, A. Rohde