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Honeyford, Michelle; Ntelioglou, Burcu Yaman – Canadian Modern Language Review, 2021
Over a three-year collaborative partnership involving university researchers, government curriculum specialists, and school division teams and educators, this post-qualitative study has engaged a diffractive methodology to research pedagogical change in relationship to a renewed provincial curriculum framework in English Language Arts (ELA). In…
Descriptors: Kindergarten, Elementary Secondary Education, English, Language Arts
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Hill, John C. – Canadian Modern Language Review, 1978
Language and cultural modules are multimedia in nature and non-sequential. Modules should be used in association with the themes and vocabulary found in the main course textbook. Reference is made to the "A-LM German Language Programs" and modules produced by Ontario German teachers in 1976 in West Germany. (SW)
Descriptors: Cultural Education, Curriculum Development, Instructional Materials, Language Instruction
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Chung, Yang-Gyun; Graves, Barbara; Wesche, Mari; Barfurth, Marion – Canadian Modern Language Review, 2005
This longitudinal case study draws on sociocultural theory to investigate language learning as a socially mediated process through computer-mediated communicative tasks in an international languages class. The study reports on the design, implementation, and outcomes of a thematic, task-based curricular innovation in which paired Korean-and…
Descriptors: Homework, Computer Mediated Communication, Computer Assisted Instruction, Korean
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Sanaoui, Razika; Lapkin, Sharon – Canadian Modern Language Review, 1992
Acknowledging that students learning a second language need opportunities for extended spoken and written interactions with native speakers, this paper describes instructional computer networking that links grade 12 Anglophone students of French in Toronto with native French-speaking peers in Montreal. Focus is on writing skills. (25 references)…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Computer Assisted Instruction, Computer Networks, Curriculum Development
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Lyster, Roy – Canadian Modern Language Review, 1987
Errors in the spoken French of immersion students, reflecting a fossilized interlanguage and language transfer, are attributed to an erroneous assumption underlying immersion instruction: that students acquire the second language in the same way they acquire their native language. An improved syllabus aimed at second-language learners is…
Descriptors: Curriculum Development, Error Patterns, French, Immersion Programs
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Taylor, Lisa K. – Canadian Modern Language Review, 2008
This article addresses two key challenges that globalization poses to literacy research: the need for new models of literacy and literacy education, and the stakes of adopting multiliteracies pedagogies in different contexts--that is, the tensions between competing hegemonic discourses of collective identity in the public sphere of ethnolinguistic…
Descriptors: Curriculum Development, Literacy Education, Multilingualism, Global Approach
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Roy, Robert R. – Canadian Modern Language Review, 1971
Address delivered at the Founding Conference of the Canadian Association of Second Language Teachers, Winnipeg, Manitoba, October 23, 1970. (DS)
Descriptors: Curriculum Development, Language Skills, Language Teachers, Professional Associations
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Valette, Rebecca M. – Canadian Modern Language Review, 1993
The effectiveness of accuracy-based programs in producing proficient second-language speakers and of proficiency-based programs in producing accurate speakers is debated. It is concluded that ways must be found to combine the advantages of both grammar-based and comprehension-oriented curricula. (Contains 10 references.) (LB)
Descriptors: Communicative Competence (Languages), Curriculum Development, Foreign Countries, Grammar
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Massey, Michael – Canadian Modern Language Review, 1985
The influence of the communicative approach in determining the direction of curriculum in English as a second language is examined at three levels (theory, materials, and implementation), revealing that the dominance of the communicative approach may be only apparent. (MSE)
Descriptors: Classroom Techniques, Communicative Competence (Languages), Curriculum Development, Educational Strategies
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Netten, Joan; Germain, Claude – Canadian Modern Language Review, 2004
This article describes the way in which the curriculum for intensive French was developed. Reference is made to its similarities to and differences from both the multidimensional curriculum proposed by the National Core French Study and the communicative approach. The importance of learning outcomes stated in terms of communicative outcomes…
Descriptors: Literacy, French, Cognitive Development, Intensive Language Courses
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Poyen, Janet – Canadian Modern Language Review, 1990
The National Core French Study, a four-year curriculum project sponsored by the Canadian Association of Language Teachers and government-funded, resulted in the recommendation of a multidimensional curriculum model based on a communicative/experiential approach. The model and its implications for professional development, program design, and…
Descriptors: Communicative Competence (Languages), Core Curriculum, Curriculum Design, Curriculum Development