Publications

Publication details [#41118]

Dagenais, Diane and Catherine Berron. 2001. Promoting Multilingualism through French Immersion and Language Maintenance in Three Immigrant Families. Language, Culture and Curriculum 14 (2) : 142–155.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

immigrant | language maintenance | language status | language use | multilingualism

Language as a subject

English | French | Languages, Asian

Place, Publisher

Multilingual Matters

Annotation

This article investigates the language practices in three South Asian immigrant families who reside in Canada and have selected French Immersion education for their children. The findings show that these families adopt various language maintenance strategies and that they attach value to French and English as the official languages of the country and as important international languages.