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The article deals with the implications of the linguistic study of bilingualism and bilingual education for second language teaching in early educational stages: in pre-school children and primary school children. In the first part, the question is raised which age is optimal for the beginning of language learning. The second part touches upon didactic and methodological problems of language teaching in early educational stages. Early English learning materials are analyzed and compared with Polish integrated learning materi-als. The analysis results in some conclusions for the didactic process. In accordance with the theoretical issues some principles for the shaping of didactic materials, teaching forms and activities, adequate tasks and contents of a language lesson are described.