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Developing Literacy Skills through Collaborative Tasks for Emerging-Proficiency English as Additional Language Learners in Quebec
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Payant, Caroline; Bell, Philippa – TESL Canada Journal, 2022
Literacy in a first language or in additional languages involves a set of complex cognitive, social, and linguistic skills that develop over time. However, pedagogical materials for low-proficiency English as an additional language (EAL) learners tend to target low-level literacy skills only, such as responding to fact-based questions. Materials…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Literacy Education, Cooperative Learning, Second Language Learning
Training Medical Students To Communicate with a Linguistic Minority Group.
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Drouin, Jeanne; Rivet, Christine – Academic Medicine, 2003
Describes a University of Ottawa program involving a French-language stream to train future physicians for the francophone minority population of Ontario. Francophone students conduct interviews in French in a communication skills laboratory while being observed by clinicians trained in observation and feedback techniques. Simulated patients play…
Descriptors: Cultural Pluralism, Foreign Countries, French, French Canadians
Battle, Fight or Spat? An Exercise in Writing History.
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Milligan, Christopher S.; Smith, David C. – Canadian Social Studies, 1996
Utilizes the 17th-century fur trade rivalry between the French and the English for a classroom experiment in the writing of history. Students produce their own account of a historical event based upon a reading of primary source documents. Peer reviews and teacher comments guide the students through several drafts. (MJP)
Descriptors: Cooperative Learning, Economic Factors, Experiential Learning, Foreign Countries