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Parents’ Expectations of Early English Instruction in Bilingual
Pre-Schools in Salatiga
Garwidha Rafwani

Abstract
This paper describes about parents’ expectations of getting their young children to learn English
at their early ages in bilingual pre-schools in Salatiga. A closed and open ended questionnaire
was used to collect data among 100 parents whose children attain the age of 2 to 5 years old and
they learn English in bilingual pre-schools. The results indicate that the majority of the parents
highly expect that early English instruction will widen the children’s cultural perspectives of
using more than one language; the knowledge of their culture and others, enable them to speak
English fluently, and assist them to face the more global era. This study may offer parents,
teachers, and other researchers some important points to consider before exposing the young
children to early English instruction.
Keywords: parents, young children, early English instruction.