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67). It becomes a matter, they say, of phonological awareness, which facilitates the individual's ability to transfer from one language to another. Sandra G. Koutzman (1999) says that for the student's first language to become lost to an acquired language is, indeed, a los (p. 7). Teaching and learning a second language, when it begins early in life, is increasing the individual ability to communicate. Koutzman taught English as a second language (ESL) and is herself bilingual. The benefit to individual of being bilingual is a multi-faceted one that actually affords an individual a greater breadth of expression, and freedom.

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Culatta, B., Reese, M., & Setzer, L.A. (2006). Early Literacy Instruction in a Dual-Language (Spanish-English) Kindergarten. Communication Disorders Quarterly, 27(2), 67+. Retrieved August 19, 2008, from Questia database: http://www.questia.com/PM.qst?a=o&d=5026072642

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