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Direct linkUsborne, Esther; Peck, Josephine; Smith, Donna-Lee; Taylor, Donald M. – Canadian Journal of Education, 2011
Aboriginal communities across Canada are implementing Aboriginal language programs in their schools. In the present research, we explore the impact of learning through an Aboriginal language on students' English and Aboriginal language skills by contrasting a Mi'kmaq language immersion program with a Mi'kmaq as a second language program. The…
Descriptors: Immersion Programs, Second Language Learning, Canada Natives, Native Language Instruction
Peer reviewedDanesi, Marcel – Mosaic: A Journal for Language Teachers, 1993
Argues, on the basis of research carried out in Canada and Belgium, that not only does the formal learning of the ancestral language in school enhance the overall cognitive abilities of immigrant children but also constitutes the optimal means by which such children can gain literacy in the dominant language. (37 references) (MDM)
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Bilingual Education, Bilingual Education Programs, Cognitive Ability
Landry, Rodriguez; Allard, Real – 1993
The position taken in this paper is that the basic debate concerning the effectiveness of bilingual education has been totally "socially naive." A study investigated the concept that the ethnolinguistic vitality of a community determines the quality and quantity of linguistic contacts with one's own linguistic group and with other…
Descriptors: Bilingual Education, Bilingualism, Community Role, Educational Attainment
