Since determination of an appropriate age to launch teaching a foreign
language into the national education system is one of the sensitive hard
issues that faces most ministries of education across the globe, this study
contributes to shed lights
on the decision-makers' choice to choose the class
most appropriate to embark on teaching English language in the
governmental Saudi schools. The current study aims to look over the
regional experiences and to examine the views of the four study-population
that directly related to teaching English language in the primary schools,
namely: pupils who were taught English in the public primary schools, their
parents, teachers and English language supervisors from both sexes in the
Saudi primary schools.
