Pre-school education and bilinguality of home and school in bilingual regions of Iran

Pre-school educational institutions assist children in their physical, psycho-motor, social, emotional, mental, and linguistic development and prepare them for primary schools. Furthermore, the main objective of pre-school programs is to familiarize children with the school culture and language. Such an objective takes a whole new meaning when we consider students, like Turkish-speaking Azeri people in Iran, who are challenged with the bilinguality of home and school since the official language of instruction is Farsi. The aim of the research conducted was to see if attempts at bridging the linguistic gap through different complementary pre-school programs have been successful.