Bilingual and Multicultural Education: Canadian PerspectivesStan Shapson, Vincent D'Oyley This book provides a conceptualisation of bilingual (French-English) and multicultural education. Its main purposes are to synthesise recent responses to bilingual and multicultural education; to identify the issues arising out of the schools' responses to these new challenges; and to examine future directions for educational policy. |
Contents
Bilingual and Multicultural Education in Canada | 1 |
Second Language Teaching Programs | 17 |
French Immersion Programs | 33 |
Bilingualism and Cognitive Functioning | 55 |
The Minority Language Child | 71 |
Implications of Multiculturalism for Curriculum | 93 |
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Anglophone Aoki approach below-average students bilingual children bilingual education bilingual program Board of Education British Columbia Canada Canadian Modern Language Chapter child cognitive countries critical reflective Cummins discrimination educa education programs English and French English language ethnic groups ETI program ETI students evaluation example federal Francophone French immersion programs French language Genesee grade immersion programs immersion students immigrant children informal fallacies L1 and L2 Lambert language policy language programs language skills language teaching programs late immersion levels of proficiency linguistic listening comprehension majority McGill University medium of instruction ment minority group minority language children Modern Language Review Montreal moral mother tongue multicultural curriculum multicultural education official languages Official Languages Act Ontario Ottawa person perspective prejudice Quebec reasons regular English program school systems second language learning second language teaching Shapson Skutnabb-Kangas social strategies studies Swain teachers tion Toronto Toronto Board Toukomaa Tucker Ukrainian unilingual Vancouver