This is great, Sandie! It will be really useful to me, although I do feel somewhat of an ugly duckling being concerned with the introduction of French rather than English! In fact I am wondering about stronger links with those involved in resarch into integrating children of immigrants into the language of their country of adoption. Of course that is a real bain linguistique which is not the same thing as French L2 in UK schools. Congratulations again! Jim -------------------------------------------- On Wed, 26/8/15, Sandie Mourão <[log in to unmask]> wrote: Subject: ELTRP Report available To: [log in to unmask] Date: Wednesday, 26 August, 2015, 23:43 Dear all, Apologies for cross posting. A report on a year-long collaborative research project, funded by a British Council ELT Research Partnership grant, is now available online - Robinson, P., Mourão, S. and Kang, N-J. (2015) English learning areas in pre-primary classrooms: an investigation of their effectiveness London: British Council. In our report we attempted to integrate frameworks for teachers' practical application of the ideas, in addition to providing resources in the appendices which we hope will be appealing to teachers as well. Here is the link: https://www.teachingenglish.org.uk/article/english-learning-areas-pre-primary-classrooms-investigation-their-effectiveness Please do share with colleagues, teachers, trainers and researchers. Best wishes, Sandie -- Sandie Mourão (PhD) http://sandiemourao.eu - http://picturebooksinelt.blogspot.com/ Out now! Mourão, S. & Lourenço, M. (Eds.) 2015 Early Years Second Language Education: International Perspectives on Theories and Practice. Abingdon: Routledge. Vol 3.1 May 2015 http://clelejournal.org/ Children's Literature in English Language Education (CLELEjournal)