Multilingual Early Language Transmission (MELT) - Mercator ...

The MELT project aims:
- to identify best practices in language immersion methodology;
- to increase the skills of early-years practitioners;
- to provide young children with a strong educational foundation, enabling them to
go on and continue to progress with their multilingual skills;
- to provide parents with information on multilingualism;
- to strengthen language communities and promote cultural and linguistic diversity.
The MELT project will do this:
- by researching the early-years provision in the four language communities,
looking at different approaches to language immersion and the resources
currently available to parents and practitioners;
- by providing information to parents on the benefits of multilingual pre-school
education;
- by developing a practical guide for early years practitioners, including teaching
tools and resources;
- by employing an individual to work with practitioners and children in a number of
early years settings in the four language communities;
- by holding a final conference in Brussels in October 2011, in order to share the
messages of the project with a wider audience.
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