Purpose: This study investigates how Mandarin-English bilingual students in Canada produce Mandarin tones and how this is influenced by factors such as tone complexity, cross-linguistic influences, and speech input. Method: Participants were 82 students enrolled in a Chinese bilingual program in Western Canada. Students were recruited from Grades…

We use a narrative inquiry methodology to consider tensions surrounding Indigenising school mathematics. This research takes place in a Cree bilingual school in a Western Canadian prairie province conducted with three Cree elementary school teachers. We contemplate ways that: Indigenisation and notions of success in education can be Eurocentric;…

For decades, language and literacy scholars working within a sociocultural framework have laboured to bring attention to the strengths of marginalized students in an effort to create more inclusive and equitable learning environments (e.g., Cummins, 2000; Dyson, 1997; González et al., 2005; Heath, 1983). While this work has moved the field forward…

Since the democratic opening of the country (the Dominican Republic), in past decades and the subsequent phenomena of Worldalization, Globalization and the Influences of the Knowledge Society and Computerization, our society and with it the national educational system at all levels has been undergoing a series of changes and influences not ignored…

Abstracted from a paper entitled Problems Peculiar to Historical Research in Franco-Ontarian Schools." (RT)

Describes program sponsored by University of Ottawa Faculty of Education at Saint Pie X Elementary French Separate School. (RT)

As part of an on-going evaluation study of the bilingual program at St. Joseph Elementary School in Quebec, Canada, this document reports on its operation during the 1980-81 school year. During this year, pupils in grade one followed a modified social studies program through French, while pupils in kindergarten followed a revised edition of the…

Contrasts a traditional program of English language instruction with French as a second language, and an innovative program involving French immersion; project supported in part by the Canada Council and the Defense Research Board. (RL)

The history of bilingual schools, and the conflict between English and Slavic cultures in Canada. (RA)

Guidelines are provided for teacher-librarians organizing bilingual school resource centers at British Columbia schools with French immersion programs. The guidelines address (1) the handling of French language materials within the collection; (2) selection and acquisition; (3) selection of vertical file materials; (4) budgeting, cataloguing, and…

The United States experience with bilingual schools falls into two periods: from 1840-1920 and from 1963 to the present. Bilingual schooling may be said to have originated in Cincinnati in 1840, where a large minority of the population was German-speaking. During this first period, perhaps a million American children received a part of their…