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Les effets de dispositifs de prévention des difficultés langagières dans des contextes monolingues et plurilingues

Many programs for young children were conceived with the aim to develop their language skills and prevent underlying difficulties, especially related to the social background of children. After presenting the intentions, the benefits and limitations of several devices implanted in monolingual contexts for children of 0-6 years, the first results of a program set up in nurseries of early childhood are presented. The results of studies on the effects of programs developed in multilingual contexts in kindergarten and elementary school are then proposed. The challenges of these programs are discussed as well as the precautions to be taken in generalizing the results from these different studies as regard to language developmental processes and their many pathways.