Challenges, opportunities, risks and hopes. Making the voice of non-English speaking children stronger in early years provision [Aberdeen]
In the last decade, the needs of young children who are learning English as an Additional Language has been a popular research topic in the area of ‘multilingual education’ (Gorter et al., 2013), with a view of enabling children to have full access to the curriculum (Conteh et al., 2007). However, if the focus of the research is centred on children’s experience in Early Years settings, rather than their needs, the situation in which a shared language is unavailable appears to be under-examined. Moreover, while there is research on the adaptation strategies of the non-English speaking children (Drury, 2007), there is still a gap concerning the multilingual settings as a complex network of relationships.
Young bilingual learners at home and school: researching multilingual voices
Young bilingual learners at home and school: researching multilingual voices, by Rose Drury, Stoke-on-Trent, UK, Trenthan Books, 2007, iv+113 pp., $29.95 (Paperback) ISBN 13:9781858563558 Young Bil...
Good elementary education
Abstract The aim of this study is to identify good elementary education standards that would contribute to the elimination of inequalities in the implementations regarding the utilization -and making it utilized- of the right to elemetary education. Being a descriptive one, this study attempted to identify the definitions and explanations of the right to education in universal documents by a review of literature. The study then attempted to explain the drawbacks concerning the protection and the utilization of the right to education. The study proposes some standards such as accessibility, content, operation so as to eliminate the obstacles hindering the utilization of the right to elementary education.