SLA

[anne marie devlin]

> Date: Mon, 28 Feb 2011 08:53:22 -0500
> From: bischoff.st at gmail.com
> To: funknet at mailman.rice.edu
> Subject: [FUNKNET] SLA
> 
> Hi all,
> 
> A student of mine is an elementary school ESL instructor. She has noticed
> that if a child arrives to the school without a cohort of speakers of the
> same L1 (say Igbo), the student seems to pick up English much quicker than
> those students that arrive with a cohort of speakers of the same L1 (e.g.
> all Spanish speakers). Intuitively this make sense. However, I was
> wondering if anyone was familiar with research in this area? I tried a
> number of different search terms but have had difficulty finding anything.
> 
> Thanks,
> Shannon