Tuesday, March 22, 2011

Introduction

After spending a year tutoring Italian first graders in English as a second language, I became interested in how young children master a second language and the most beneficial methods for this mastery. This exploratory blog will highlight my findings on research in second language acquisition within children, and the methods that work best in adding languages to one's repertoire.

Here are the Italian students that got me thinking...

1 comment:

  1. So glad to have found your blog! I am currently teaching English at an English-only Immersion School to first graders in South Korea. Additionally, as a non-native speaker of Korean (I am not fluent in the language), I am raising a bilingual son (he is currently 30 months old). So I look forward to the research you find and how it relates to my work and family life.

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