Assessing Teaching English to Children, under 7, in Iraqi Primary Schools and Kindergarten

Abstract

People that want to learn English are becoming more numerous every day. There are approximately one billion students learning English worldwide (Crystal, 2003), which is a result of the language's dominance in all industries, the fact that every country in the world teaches English in its schools and universities, as well as the large number of private institutions that offer intensive English courses for non-native speakers every day in addition to the British Council's institutes. Since then, beginning in the first grade of primary school, all courses in history, geography, science, and mathematics have been taught in English, with one topic for the Arabic language (5 hours per week), and between one and two; however some scholars and linguists feel that teaching English in early ages of primary education in Iraq will impede the level of children’s acquisition to other educational subjects so the researcher is going to make some experiment on the level of (ESL) comparing between the results of two primary school.