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The Role of Prefabricated Language in Young Children's Second Language Acquisition.
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Perera, Natsuko Shibata – Bilingual Research Journal, 2001
A study investigated how young learners of English as a second language become both linguistically creative and capable of socializing in English through the use of prefabricated language (PL) (memorized chunks of sentences). Observations of four Japanese preschool children in two-way immersion programs suggested that PL acts as a scaffold for…
Descriptors: Bilingual Education, English (Second Language), Imitation, Immersion Programs