Selected bibliography of French Canadian literary works intended primarily for teachers in Canadian bilingual schools. (RL)

Describes project designed to enhance the elementary core French program through presentations of history, culture, and life-style of French-speaking peoples by noncertified Francophones from the vicinity. Project has been successful and has produced a more tolerant outlook among students for other cultures. Uses foods of France and early life in…

Provides examples of humorous errors in written exams made by university students of French and Canadian culture. (AM)

Discusses the advantages of a bilingual education, and in particular the benefits of mother tongue instruction on the learning of the second language. (AM)

One college faculty member's collection of unprepared students' amusing answers to test questions on French civilization includes errors of information, spelling, and grammar, and student humor. (MSE)

Examines effective ways of utilizing foreign currency from various countries whose official language is Spanish as means to promote conversation and enrich vocabulary in Spanish classes. Use of currency has pedagogical, cultural, and historical aspects. (Author/BK)

Describes the "Almanach Vermot," a type of encyclopedia on French language and culture, and indicates ways in which this publication may be of use in the French classroom. (AM)

Presents results of a survey designed to determine the titles of books used in culture and literature instruction in Ontario secondary schools.

Provides instructions for teaching four French Canadian folk dances. (AM)

A survey focusing on both French and French-Canadian culture, and on the availability of French civilization courses to non-Francophone students at Canadian universities, was used to gather information about course content, goals, activities, evaluation, materials, language use, and faculty desire for a network for idea-sharing. (MSE)

The best use to be made of French-Canadian culture in Canada is to start by building into language programs examples of the culture that are nearby. Examples are cited of French culture which can be studied and several references are provided. (SW)

A description of the English-Ukrainian bilingual program in the primary grades of the Edmonton Public Schools. Objectives and evaluative criteria are given. Results show no significant difference between regular and bilingual classes in standardized test scores. Children learned a significant amount of Ukrainian. All concerned considered the…

Issues in the assessment of learning about target-language culture are discussed, and some techniques for classroom assessment of three areas of culture (knowledge, awareness,, and functional skills) are outlined. It is argued that culture is crucial for development of communicative competence and should not be taught without being assessed. (53…

Reports on an experiment which sought to determine the effect of instruction in francophone African culture on the attitudes of students of French toward Africans. (AM)

Describes the use of the "micrologue," a brief narrative on cultural topics, to develop linguistic and cultural skills in the language classroom. (AM)