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If you want to find out more about research into early language learning here is a small selection of  academic articles that may be of interest:

‘Bilingual language development in preschool children’; Genesse, F (1987) Language development in exceptional circumstances Vol 1

‘Mirror of language: The debate on bilingualism’; Hakuta K (1986)

‘Second-language acquisition in childhood: Vol 1 Preschool children’ McLaughlin, B (1986) New York University Press

‘Early versus late start in foreign language education: documenting achievements’ Rocío Domínguez PhD  and Silvia Pessoa PhD, Carnegie Mellon Univeristy 2005

‘The robustness of critical period effects in second language acquisition’ DeKeyser, RM Studies in Second Language Acquisition

‘Age and second language acquisition’ Singleton D Annual Review of Applied Linguistics

‘Un segundo idioma en el aula: ¿nos estamos perdiendo una oportunidad?’ From Volume 5, Issue 1 of Montessori Life, Winter 1993 by Ruth Cory Selman