Conclusions: Implications and recommendations for practice
for instruction language in pre-school and early
The findings concerning language acquisition
primary school to foster migrant children’s
cited in this paper should and could build
academic achievement is only one possible
a fruitful base for fostering language
dimension of the issue. The relationship
development in daycare settings, whether the
between language development and school
first or the second language is the target. This
success is complex, even for native children, and
approach should extend beyond daycare and
a multi-method approach and further research
continue to be implemented in school settings.
are both needed.
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