Six-year-olds at a primary school in Aberdeen can do mental arithmetic in French and are beginning to make up their own phrases in the language, thanks to a pioneering 'partial immersion project' in which they are taught in French for an hour a day.
The children's language skills are so far advanced that they are expected to reach Standard grade by the time they start secondary school, according to an evaluation of the project carried out by Professor Richard Johnstone at the Scottish Centre for Information on Language Teaching and Research at Stirling University and published last week.
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