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An investigation into starting ages, rates and routes of learning amongst early foreign language learners

• document the development of linguistic competence among young classroom learners of French at three different starting ages, in primary and early secondary school classrooms, and identify similarities and differences
• compare rates of development at different ages after the same amount of classroom exposure
• document and compare the classroom learning strategies used by children at different ages and their attitudes to language learning
• based on this evidence, contribute to theoretical understandings of language learning among young learners and inform current primary languages initiatives and educational practices in the UK and internationally