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An app that helps introduce very young children to foreign languages will soon be available in pre-schools around Australia. Image: Children play at a childcare centre (AAP)


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By Greg Dyett, Ellie Laing, Christie Rivera

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An app that helps introduce very young children to foreign languages will soon be available in pre-schools around Australia. Image: Children play at a childcare centre (AAP)


The government says the success of this app's pilot program will see the same technology applied to maths and science, to try to address an alarming drop-out rate from the subjects in later years.

 

 


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