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The identification of a preschool that would qualify to represent the working conditions of the general educational state preschool context in the Salzburg area would require an analysis that ideally involved all the state preschools in this education context. Questions therefore first aimed to identify the preschool’s size which included the number of groups in a preschool and the group size (→ question 1a, 1b) and the number of children who spoke German as a second or third language (→ question 1c). This would indicate how many preschools were multilingual in profile. The next question aimed to find out if preschools provided support for the children to learn German and who was responsible to teach it (→ question 2a). This would provide an insight both in the workload of the staff and in their experience in the area of language teaching. Finally, the contextual framework also included the question of how many preschools actually offered English, and if they did offer English, whether the preschool teachers themselves taught English or if it were taught by external staff. It also aimed to find out if English was an integral part of an individual preschool’s programme and in what way it was organised (→ question 2b).

Results are presented in the following chapters.