Foreign Language Education Improves Young Students' Academic Success. In the not so distant future, speaking a foreign language may be yet another thing elementary school children can do with ease.
Take for instance Utah and Delaware, where state money is being used to implement foreign language immersion programs. This is in light of the U.S. Guidelines for Starting an Elementary School Foreign Language Program. Resources Online Resources: Digests June 1995 EDO-FL-95-09 Guidelines for Starting an Elementary School Foreign Language Program Marcia Rosenbusch, National K–12 Foreign Language Resource Center In the past decade, schools have demonstrated increased interest in beginning the study of foreign languages in the early grades.
Research in Support of Elementary School Foreign Language Learning. (reprinted with permission from the Center for Applied Linguistics.)
The bibliography on this page, compiled by Carol Ann Pesola and Helena Curtain, includes research that shows the benefits of early language learning. The bibliography is divided into two parts: