"Does Springboard help to learn other languages?

#Pupils were invited to decode the #French sentence:
'Les oreilles de l'éléphant sont très grandes et le nez est très long.'

The only #children to successfully translate the whole sentence were, interestingly, from #School A [who never had French lessons before]; these 2 children used interesting #metalinguistic decoding strategies (cognates, punctuation, context).
School B children [who had been learning French since Year 1] performed only marginally better (...)"

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