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Who Is Immersion for?: A Critical Analysis of French Immersion Policies
Canadian Journal of Applied Linguistics, 2023 Elitism has been an issue in Canadian French immersion since its inception. This study examines how two racially diverse Ontarian school boards and Ontario French immersion policy, curricula, and other related documents construct and support an elite ...
Marika Kunnas
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The Intersection of French Immersion Teachers’ Identities and Teaching French Immersion
Canadian Journal for New Scholars in EducationThis scoping review explores how French Immersion (FI) teachers in Canada construct their professional identities within the sociopolitical landscape of official bilingualism.
François-Daniel Portelance
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Students’ Transition from Secondary School French Programs into University Level French Immersion
Canadian Journal of Applied Linguistics, 2021 A great deal of time and resources are invested throughout Canada to encourage students to learn French as a second official language through a variety of programs (core French, intensive French, and French immersion programs). Little is known, however,
Jérémie Séror, Alysse Weinberg
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Canadian Journal of Education, 1981 Now that the early French-immersion program is a well-established educational alternative for English-speaking students in the Carleton Board of Education in Ontario, it has become important to examine factors which may influence the achievement of ...
Sharon Lapkin +4 more
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Syntactic Awareness and Reading Comprehension in Emergent Bilingual Children
Languages, 2023 The present study investigated the role of syntactic awareness in reading comprehension among English–French bilinguals learning French as an additional language in Canadian French immersion programs.
Diana Burchell +4 more
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Canadian Journal of Applied Linguistics, 2020 This study examined the oral language skills of grade-two anglophone children enrolled in French Immersion and English-stream programs. The study had two objectives: (a) to compare performance between the groups on measures of receptive vocabulary ...
Diana Burchell +4 more
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Frontiers in Education, 2022 This study investigates social identity as a potential psychological variable in second language education. Despite the fact that school plays a critical role in the formation of social identity for students, social identity has yet to be studied across ...
Hilary Walton
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Living and working in immersion French [PDF]
Journal of French Language Studies, 2003 Our study presents a variationist analysis of lexical variation in L2 immersion in French. Two variables are considered: a) words referring to remunerated work, e.g. travail; b) verbs used to indicate one's place of residence, e.g. habiter. One linguistic factor, priming in the interviewer's question, is shown to condition both variables.
Nadasdi, Terry, McKinnie, Meghan
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Canadian Journal of Applied Linguistics, 2021 In this article, we analyze the plurilingualism of instructors and their students in a program taught through the medium of French at a multilingual, Anglophone university in Western Canada.
Steve Marshall +2 more
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Language Proficiency, Biliteracy and French Immersion
Canadian Journal of Education, 1983 The impact of Canadian French immersion research on theoretical conceptions of bilingualism and biliteracy is reviewed and four major issues on which immersion research has had a significant impact are identified.
Jim Cummins
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