Teachers should capitalize on opportunities for oral language development through play in French immersion instruction.
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Should language teaching describe how a language is used, or how it should be used?
Chad’s language policy has inherent potential for conflict.
Can you guess which languages score the highest for terms relating to ‘love’, ‘death’, ‘canoe’ or ‘sheep’? We made a tool to help you explore our extensive dataset.
Three years after a request made by the Commissioner of Official Languages, the Supreme Court is still refusing to translate its decisions handed down before 1970. Its reasons are not valid.
Since 2003, the number of GCSE entries in German has fallen from 125,663 to this year’s 35,913.
Bilingual education can improve learning outcomes but it’s important to consider local context.
Parents in a study about the accessibility of French immersion programs discussed inadequate support for learning to read and feeling pressured to pay for expensive tutors.
Listening to voices of racialized students in French immersion matters for creating more inclusive schooling.
Media accounts on endangered languages abound, but they don’t always explore how to materially help native speakers. Peer-reviewed research shows that such efforts don’t always have positive effects.
Despite denunciations of discrimination against French-speaking students who want to settle in Canada, particularly Africans, the federal government does not seem to want to act.
The number of students studying languages in UK universities has plummeted in recent years but some creative thinking may help to reverse that trend.
School choice already abounds in Ontario. Adding charter schooling in the name of ‘choice’ won’t help student achievement.
Some have claimed the proposed new Indigenous names for Winnipeg streets are too difficult to pronounce. But what does it mean when we say a word is hard to pronounce?
In a study, teachers who are parents acknowledged programs of choice separate students into cohorts labelled strong and weak, yet many continue to secure spots for their own children.
No official French version of the Constitution Act of 1867 exists in 2022. This aberration calls into question the validity of taking an oath to the King in French.
Language-learning research in the Netherlands has determined that using a foreign language rather than just memorizing its grammar can transform how students progress.
As a language of instruction, French has long held a prominent place in Senegal’s institutions and media. But Wolof, the most spoken national language, has regained its lost places.
French has historically been a language of human rights. That’s why the Québec government should promote it as a tool of a human rights-based civic education, not force it on newcomers.
Research shows sleep-learning can complement, but never replace, learning while awake.
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Associate Professor, Applied Psychology and Human Development, University of Toronto
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Professeur, Université Jean Moulin Lyon 3
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Vice-Dean and Full Professor, Common Law Section, L’Université d’Ottawa/University of Ottawa
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Full Professor, Research Chair in Language Rights, Faculty of Law | Professeur titulaire, Chaire de recherche Droits et enjeux linguistiques, Faculté de droit, L’Université d’Ottawa/University of Ottawa
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Lecturer in French Linguistics, University of Oxford
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Lecturer in French Studies, School of Advanced Study, University of London
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