L’apprentissage précoce d’une langue étrangère dès la maternelle : le cas des établissements privés en Algérie

Abstract

Early learning of a foreign language from kindergarten: The case of private schools in Algeria

This paper is a reflection on the interest growing caused by the early training of a foreign language in the establishments deprived in Algeria. One of the solutions advanced to achieve the ambitious goal to train multilingual speakers consists in as much as possible anticipating the contact with another language. If the child very early learns the foreign language within the framework from a bilingual education, he will not know blockings which harm the training. It will rather gain unquestionable advantages on the intellectual level and the However, the early teaching of a foreign language raises fundamental questions, all related to the fact that learning it is a child. Today, the specialists resort to the neurosciences, cognitive, psychological, linguistic sciences and with sciences of education, to develop an interdisciplinary epistemological model of the early teaching of the languages, made up of dimensions acquisitionnelle, linguistic, cultural and methodological.