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Heffernan, Peter J. – Canadian Modern Language Review, 1979
Describes the birth of a French immersion program in a Newfoundland primary school, attended by French-speaking, English-speaking, monolingual, and bilingual students. It is designed especially for the French-speaking minority in danger of losing its native language and culture to assimilation processes. (AM)
Descriptors: Acculturation, Bilingual Education, Cultural Education, Elementary Education
Ionescu, Doina – Francais dans le Monde, 1979
Describes a program of French for engineering students that makes extensive use of audiovisual laboratory equipment and cultural materials. (AM)
Descriptors: Audiovisual Aids, Course Descriptions, Cultural Education, Engineering Technology
Ahler, Janet; Perrone, Vito – 1978
In collaboration with native speakers, linguists at Mary College in 1973 established the North Dakota Indian Language Studies Program, which has provided native language instruction in three reservation elementary schools, prepared teaching and learning materials, and trained teachers in native language pedagogy. The program was initiated to…
Descriptors: American Indian Languages, American Indian Reservations, American Indians, Bilingualism
Travers, Claudia S.; Reilly, Joseph T. M. – 1979
A foreign travel program for eighth grade French language students from Shoreham, New York was developed to provide language speaking practice in Quebec, Canada. The program was designed to allow students to spend as much time as possible speaking the language and interacting with the people. The following "survival through speaking"…
Descriptors: Communicative Competence (Languages), Cultural Education, Cultural Exchange, Field Trips