Publications

Publication details [#51545]

Taylor, Donald M., Esther Usborne, Julie Caouette and Qiallak Qumaaluk. 2009. Bilingual education in an Aboriginal context: examining the transfer of language skills from Inuktitut to English or French. International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism 12 (6) : 667–684.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

aboriginal | bilingual education | language of instruction | language transfer

Language as a subject

English | French | Inuktitut

Place, Publisher

Routledge

Journal WWW

www.multilingual-matters.com/multi/onlinej.asp

Annotation

This comprehensive and longitudinal study of bilingual Inuktitut-English/French education in the aboriginal context of a remote Arctic community, reveals that grade 3 baseline heritage language competence predicts later heritage and mainstream language achievement, thus offering evidence for cross-language transfer and emphasizing the significance of heritage language education for aboriginal students