Editing Language education (section)

===Early childhood education===
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Early childhood is a critical time for the mastery of language. Hearing infants know some phonological elements of the languages around them at birth.<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Byers-Heinlein |first=Krista |last2=Burns |first2=Tracey C. |last3=Werker |first3=Janet F. |date=2010 |title=The Roots of Bilingualism in Newborns |url=https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/0956797609360758 |journal=Psychological Science |language=en |volume=21 |issue=3 |pages=343–348 |doi=10.1177/0956797609360758 |issn=0956-7976}}</ref> By six months, infants recognize concrete words for things like food and body parts.<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Bergelson |first=Elika |last2=Aslin |first2=Richard N. |date=2017-12-05 |title=Nature and origins of the lexicon in 6-mo-olds |url=https://pnas.org/doi/full/10.1073/pnas.1712966114 |journal=Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences |language=en |volume=114 |issue=49 |pages=12916–12921 |doi=10.1073/pnas.1712966114 |issn=0027-8424 |pmc=5724273 |pmid=29158399}}</ref> By two years, children produce sentences that are grammatically similar to those of adults, including in the types of errors that they make.<ref>{{Cite journal |last=McKee |first=Cecile |last2=McDaniel |first2=Dana |last3=Garrett |first3=Merrill F. |date=2017-09-22 |title=Children's Performance Abilities |url=https://doi.org/10.1002/9781118829516.ch22 |journal=The Handbook of Psycholinguistics |pages=491–515 |doi=10.1002/9781118829516.ch22}}</ref> While young children's language is largely acquired naturally by living in a verbal communication environment, they can also benefit from more formal language education.<ref>{{Cite journal|last=Jacobson|first=Linda|date=March 2004|title=Preschoolers Study Foreign Tongues|url=https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=aph&AN=12835748&site=ehost-live.|journal=Education Week|volume=23|pages=1–17}}</ref><ref>{{Cite journal|last=McEntire|first=Nancy|date=March 2004|title=ECAP Report: Working With Preschool Children Who Are English Language Learners|url=https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=aph&AN=12835748&site=ehost-live|journal=Childhood Education|volume=23|pages=172–173}}</ref>