30.1452, Books: Early-English education works no miracles: Goriot

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Date: Mon, 01 Apr 2019 22:57:39
From: Janacy van Duijn Genet [lot at uva.nl]
Subject: Early-English education works no miracles: Goriot

 


Title: Early-English education works no miracles 
Subtitle: Cognitive and linguistic development of mainstream, early-English, and
bilingual primary-school pupils in the Netherlands 
Series Title: LOT Dissertation Series  

Publication Year: 2019 
Publisher: Netherlands Graduate School of Linguistics / Landelijke (LOT)
	   http://www.lotpublications.nl/
	

Book URL: https://www.lotpublications.nl/early-english-education-works-no-miracles 


Author: Claire Goriot

Paperback: ISBN:  9789460933165 Pages: 531 Price: Europe EURO 32.00


Abstract:

An increasing number of Dutch primary schools is choosing to lower the
starting age for English lessons to the age of four. However, despite the
rising popularity of early-English education, little is known about its
effects on pupils’ development. The overarching question of this thesis is
whether the development of executive functions, phonological awareness, and
the perception of English speech sounds of early-English pupils is different
from that of their mainstream peers, and whether it resembles that of
English-Dutch (simultaneous) bilingual children. This thesis also reports on
the reliability of the Peabody Picture Vocabulary Test (4th edition) as a
measure of English vocabulary in children learning English as a second
language.

The thesis shows that Early-English pupils do not demonstrate better executive
functions, phonological awareness, or English speech sound perception than
mainstream pupils, and that they do not always obtain a higher level of
English vocabulary than mainstream pupils. In all three groups (mainstream,
early-English, and bilingual), children whose Dutch and English vocabularies
are more balanced show better switching skills. Bilingual children clearly
obtain higher levels of English vocabulary, and also show significantly better
perception of English speech sounds. The Peabody Picture Vocabulary Test (4th
edition) appears not to be a reliable test of English vocabulary in
inexperienced second-language learners. It does become more reliable when used
with more experienced learners. In summary, early-English education may
influence pupils’ cognitive and linguistic development, but these influences
are very limited and not comparable to those gained by being raised
bilingually.
 



Linguistic Field(s): Applied Linguistics

Subject Language(s): English (eng)


Written In: English  (eng)

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