Plaidoyer pour le bilinguisme

Abstract

Speaking up for Bi-Lingual Schools. This plea in favour of bilingual teaching does not aim at increasing the numeric superiority of bilingual speakers but at improving radically the results of language teaching. It is interesting to see how bilingual education can be combined with an early initiation to foreign languages in primary schools. France and Great Britain have had a very similar experience of that formula in the 1970s. Psycholinguists confirm how easy it is for children under nine to learn and handle several languages. This is why all great specialists advocate an early stage of bilingual training. Concrete examples, like that of Alban and his grandfather, corroborate this conviction. It would be easy in France to set up bilingual education rapidly, at least from the first year at primary school, at the cost of an appropriate training of primary school teachers who now all hold a university degree.

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