The Appropriate Age to Launch Teaching a Foreign Language in the Public Education


Abstract in English

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.

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