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Mila Schwartz

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Twenty-first-century preschool bilingual education: facing advantages and challenges in cross-cultural contexts

2016

Early childhood is a critical period in a child’s intensive social, emotional, linguistic and cognitive development, and preschool serves as the first transitional step from home to the wider socia...

060201 languages & linguisticsLinguistics and LanguageBilingual educationTwenty-First Centuryearly childhood bilingualismta612106 humanities and the artsLanguage and LinguisticsEducationDevelopmental psychologybilingual education0602 languages and literatureCognitive developmentCross-culturalta516preschool educationEarly childhoodPsychologyPeriod (music)International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism
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Two languages in the air : a cross-cultural comparison of preschool teachers’ reflections on their flexible bilingual practices

2016

Bilingual preschool education is under researched compared with bilingual school education. There is also a lack of research on bilingual preschool teachers’ agency and how they negotiate between two languages in the classroom. We examined the language practices of five bilingual preschool teachers working within three different socio-linguistic settings, in Finland (Finnish–Swedish and Russian–Finnish contexts) and Israel (an Arabic–Hebrew context) and interviewed the teachers about their use of languages in the classroom. We found that in each context the teachers reported modifications to an initial bilingual education model over time: from a strict separation of languages, to flexible b…

Linguistics and Languageteacher agencyTeaching methodlanguage attitudesearly childhood bilingualismta6121Context (language use)code-switchingLanguage and LinguisticsEducationPedagogyFinno-Ugric languagesta516060201 languages & linguisticsflexible bilingual practicesBilingual education4. Education05 social sciences050301 education06 humanities and the artsbilingual preschool educationSemitic languagesCode-switching0602 languages and literatureThematic analysisPsychology0503 educationSociolinguistics
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Two languages in the air: a cross-cultural comparison of preschool teachers’ reflections on their flexible bilingual practices

2020

This book article was originally published as a special issue of International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism. doi:10.1080/13670050.2016.1184615 Bilingual preschool education is under researched compared with bilingual school education. There is also a lack of research on bilingual preschool teachers’ agency and how they negotiate between two languages in the classroom. We examined the language practices of five bilingual preschool teachers working within three different socio-linguistic settings, in Finland (Finnish-Swedish and Russian-Finnish contexts), and Israel (an Arabic-Hebrew context) and interviewed the teachers about their use of languages in the classroom. We fou…

060201 languages & linguisticsflexible bilingual practicesteacher agency4. Educationlanguage attitudes0602 languages and literature05 social sciencesearly childhood bilingualism050301 educationcode-switching06 humanities and the artsbilingual preschool education0503 education
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