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Exploring Written Systems in Early Childhood Education
- Bookbird: A Journal of International Children's Literature
- Johns Hopkins University Press
- Volume 51, Number 3, July 2013
- pp. 36-46
- 10.1353/bkb.2013.0052
- Article
- Additional Information
The increasing presence of children who speak other languages in Italian classrooms is a major didactic challenge for teachers. Teacher awareness of the importance of genuine cultural and linguistic integration and the necessity to improve language competences in every child confers particular significance to activities developed in multilingual contexts. This study shows that these educational contexts offer invaluable opportunities for enhancing language learning in three- to six-year-old children.