aLEARNER-GENERATED INQUIRIES WITHIN AN ENGLISH LANGUAGE LEARNER CONTEXT This study’s theoretical frame is comprised of research on inquiry-based curricula and research on secondlanguage acquisition in school settings. Reggio Emilia’s early childhood program in Italy has documented how children explore the world through “a hundred languages, 249 a hundred thoughts, a hundred ways of thinking, playing, of speaking” (Edwards, Gandini, & Forman, 1998, p. 3). Through this project approach, young children…
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