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EdCan Network, 2019
This brief report presents six trends in Canadian education for 2018-2019. Each trend is presented with a list of facts and relating report to support the trend. The six trends are: (1) Provinces and territories are conducting whole system reviews and reforms to their education systems; (2) Minority language revitalization in education has become…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Educational Trends, Educational Change, Educational Practices
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Keating Marshall, Kelle; Bokhorst-Heng, Wendy D. – Foreign Language Annals, 2018
This article examines four French immersion (FI) teachers' perspectives on the relationship between language and culture and on their roles as intercultural mediators in New Brunswick (NB), Canada's only officially bilingual province. Data were drawn from semi-structured interviews with the teachers. Couched in the broader framework of Canada's…
Descriptors: Immersion Programs, French, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
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Makropoulos, Josee – Language, Culture and Curriculum, 2010
This paper makes a contribution to the field of French immersion studies by examining student attitudes towards the secondary French immersion curriculum. Some of the students had made the decision to stay engaged with the programme while others had become disengaged from it. Drawing on the results of interviews with 23 students in a high school…
Descriptors: Curriculum Development, Student Attitudes, Foreign Countries, Educational Experience
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Mayhanovich, Suzanne E.; Fish, Saundra B. – Foreign Language Annals, 1988
In the rush to activate French immersion programs in Canada, the training of immersion teachers has been overlooked. To insure the programs' continued success, a course designed to better prepare primary immersion teachers is outlined, and general implications for the training of these teachers is discussed. (Author/DJD)
Descriptors: Curriculum Development, FLES, Foreign Countries, French
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Boutin, France; Chinien, Christian A. – 1997
The report details a Manitoba (Canada) project to prepare public school teachers so that they can assist their students in developing essential technological literacy skills. More specifically, the project's objective was to develop and pilot a preservice teacher education component designed to prepare French immersion teachers to incorporate…
Descriptors: Computer Literacy, Curriculum Development, Educational Technology, Elementary Education
Hawkins, Eric, Ed. – 1988
This British collection of essays on intensive second language instruction is divided into four groups. A section on intensive courses outside Britain includes: "Intensive Courses in a German Youth Hostel"; "Intensive German from an Austrian Perspective: An LEA Initiative"; and "Integrating Intensive Sessions into the…
Descriptors: Bilingual Education, Curriculum Development, Elementary Secondary Education, Foreign Countries
Lavoie, Jacinthe – 1989
A shift in instructional focus to student needs and interests spurred the development of a different approach to French second language program design in Alberta. A practical curriculum planning model is offered that is based on: (1) communicative and student-centered activities; (2) responsiveness to teacher needs; and (3) supporting planning for…
Descriptors: Class Activities, Course Content, Curriculum Design, Curriculum Development
Leduc, Denise – 1989
This guide to secondary school French reading instruction addresses a variety of general and specific instructional issues. An introductory chapter discusses program objectives, minimum program requirements, and the population to be taught. The second chapter looks at theoretical aspects of the development of reading ability: current thoughts on…
Descriptors: Classroom Techniques, Computer Assisted Instruction, Curriculum Design, Curriculum Development
Fallon, Gerald; Morse, Marie – 1988
Alberta's teaching guide for upper-elementary French immersion instruction provides assistance in integrating notional program content with communicative language techniques. It does not provide content material, but focuses on techniques for enhancing instruction of both receptive (reading and listening) and productive (writing and speaking)…
Descriptors: Class Activities, Classroom Techniques, Communicative Competence (Languages), Curriculum Development
Lazaruk, Walter A. – Alberta Modern Language Journal, 1978
Current educational research and possible directions for the improvement of second language education in schools are discussed in the light of current Canadian political and economic influences. The Ontario Ministry of Education has proposed three levels of proficiency in French as reasonable objectives to be achieved by secondary schools in their…
Descriptors: Bilingualism, Communicative Competence (Languages), Curriculum Development, Educational Objectives