Graham, S;
Courtney, L;
Marinis, T;
Tonkyn, A;
(2017)
Early Language Learning: The Impact of Teaching and Teacher Factors.
Language Learning
, 67
(4)
pp. 922-958.
10.1111/lang.12251.
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Abstract
This study examined the progress in lexical and grammatical knowledge among 252 learners of French in England across the last two years of primary education and into the first year of secondary school in relation to teaching and teacher factors. It compared linguistic outcomes from two different approaches, one which emphasized oracy and the other which combined literacy with attention to oracy development. We also explored the relationship between linguistic outcomes and other teaching/teacher factors: teaching time, teacher level of French proficiency, and teacher level of training in language instruction. Learners completed a sentence repetition task and a photo description task, making small but statistically significant progress in both grammatical and lexical knowledge between test points. While teaching approach had little impact on such progress, other teaching and teacher factors did, particularly the French proficiency level of the primary school teacher and the amount of teaching time devoted to French.
| Type: | Article |
|---|---|
| Title: | Early Language Learning: The Impact of Teaching and Teacher Factors |
| Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
| DOI: | 10.1111/lang.12251 |
| Publisher version: | https://doi.org/10.1111/lang.12251 |
| Language: | English |
| Additional information: | © 2017 The Authors. Language Learning published by Wiley Periodicals, Inc. on behalf of Language Learning Research Club, University of Michigan This is an open access article under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. |
| UCL classification: | UCL UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Education UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Education > UCL Institute of Education |
| URI: | https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10066994 |
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