Publications

Publication details [#59036]

Mady, Callie. 2014. Learning French as a second official language in Canada: comparing monolingual and bilingual students at Grade 6. International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism 17 (3) : 330–344.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

immigrant | L2-acquisition | language proficiency | motivation | official language

Language as a subject

French

Place, Publisher

Routledge

Journal WWW

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

Annotation

This article suggests that immigrant group status in Canada positively affects students' French as a second language official achievement, making them outperform Canadian-born English speaking (CBE) AND Canadian-born multilingual groups.