The one-dimensional cultural model of society which prevailed in Europe has been replaced by multicultural societies due to the sweeping social, financial and cultural changes which resulted from globalisation. In this emerging situation, the necessity to facilitate communication among people from diverse nationalities has led to the introduction of early foreign language programmes. To this end, the present paper put under the lens the teachers’ views concerning the efficacy of the “Programme of Learning English in Early Childhood” (PEAP) to boost the pupils’ linguistic growth. This programme is in effect in the Greek primary schools where children start learning English as a foreign language in the first grade at the age of six. The results unraveled that the participating teachers acknowledged the efficiency of the PEAP to enhance the very young learners’ linguistic evolvement and ranked its merits in a descending order of importance.
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