Systematic literature review on early foreign language learning

Abstract

In many places, you can read about learning a foreign language starting at an early age, and researchers put forward many arguments both for and against it, so there is no unified position in this regard. However, the mentioned counterarguments do not say against the fact that learning a foreign language early in a playful way would be harmful for the child. In our present investigation, we are looking for the answer to what are the results so far that the researchers believe are possible, what foreign language learning methods can be useful for children. That is why we chose to analyze the systematic literature, which can give us a comprehensive picture of this topic. The EBSCO database was used during the study, and five studies were analyzed as a result of the multi-step filtering. During the investigation, among other things, we examined the results of the bibliometric analysis, as well as presented the methods related to early foreign language acquisition, which the specialists applied in their research.