Long run Quote by Terry Marselle

Both the quantity and quality of the words children hear during their first three years of life make an enormous difference in how prepared…

— Dorothy Bush Koch

“The children who were taught in English-only classrooms or transitioned to English instruction before they demonstrated well-established oral language abilities in their own language…

— Terry Marselle

“There are significant differences among children who are becoming fluent in English that will influence how they learn English. These include the language spoken…

— Terry Marselle

As a child, it was really hard because I'd be thrown into a new school and have to make new friends, or I'd sit…

— Alexander Dreymon

There is a slam-dunk case for extending foreign language teaching to children aged five. Just as some people have taken a perverse pride in…

— Michael Gove

Now we have this idea that, not only do you go to first grade to learn your family's language, but you go to a…

— Richard Rodriguez

It was probably very difficult to go from Chinese and then suddenly go to kindergarten and start speaking English; it's very hard to transition…

— Lucy Liu

“Advancing no particular theory of their own, some insist that explicit teaching of grammar, vocabulary, semantics, pragmatics, and even pronunciation is necessary because students…

— James Crawford

“how bilingualism has been shown to benefit • bilingual children’s precocious knowledge of language, • their enhanced cognitive development in general, and • the…

— Barbara Zurer Pearson

My parents have always had a very limited command of English. Of course, when we first arrived in the UK, none of us spoke…

— Zia Haider Rahman

You know, even growing up going to school, I had teachers that were against bilingual teaching. I never understood that. My parents always had…

— Emily Rios

The conviction that the best way to prepare children for a harsh, rapidly changing world is to introduce formal instruction at anearly age is…

— David Elkind