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Languages and Linguistics

geardaddy

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2. "For example, in the early schooling years, children learn more effectively when they are ..."

Reply to Behind the Aegis (Original post)

Tue Jul 11, 2023, 11:26 AM

Jul 2023

"For example, in the early schooling years, children learn more effectively when they are taught in their mother tongue rather than a second or third language."

I'm not sure this is true, in that bilingual children have more than one mother tongue.

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Africa's linguistic diversity goes largely unnoticed in research on multilingualism [View all] Behind the Aegis Jul 2023 OP

i have a smattering of 3 diverse languages after English Tetrachloride Jul 2023 #1

"For example, in the early schooling years, children learn more effectively when they are ..." geardaddy Jul 2023 #2