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Publication details [#58973]

Mady, Callie. 2014. The role of proficiency and social context on the Grade-6 students' acquisition of French as a second official language in Canada. The International Journal of Multilingualism 11 (2) : 247–262.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

classroom conversation | context | language proficiency | official language | second language acquisition

Language as a subject

English, Canadian | French, Canadian

Place, Publisher

Routledge

Annotation

This article explores if and how proficiency in previously known languages affects Grade-6 students' French as a second official language (FSOL) proficiency in English-dominant Canada. Immigrant bilingual students obtain higher FSOL ability scores than Canadian-born monolingual English or bilingual speaking students, even when taking into account language of origin competence.