Keywords
Bilingual: a person possessing the ability to conduct themselves in two languages, fluently; a country, city, or community using two languages, especially officially
Bilingual Education: education offered in two languages, a native and secondary language, with varying amounts of each language used in accordance with the program model.
Canada: a country in North America; the second largest country in the world; official languages English and French
Census Metropolitan Area (CMA) : area that has a total population of at least 100,000, of which 50,000 live in the core. Examples include Toronto and Montreal.
Culture: the attitudes, behavior characteristics, customs, arts, social institutions, and achievements of a particular nation, people, or social group
Dual Language Education: see Bilingual Education
(Language) Immersion: a method of teaching a second language in which the learners’ second language is the medium of classroom instruction. Through this method, learners study school subjects in their second language (L2)
Language: a method of human communication, spoken and written, consisting of the use of words in a structured and conventional way; language systems vary according to particular communities and cultures
Multilingual education: mother tongue language development followed by learning multiple additional languages. Can learn two or more languages through this system of education.
Official Language: a language that is given a special legal status in a particular country, state, or other jurisdiction. Typically a country's official language refers to the language used within its government
Official minority-language education (OMLE): educational policies that ensure that although an official language may be a minority in a certain board that they still have access to education in their mother tongue. This only applies to French and English within Canada.
Partial/extended immersion: 50% of academic instruction is presented in the second language and 50% in the native language
Quebec: province in Canada; the majority of its residents are French-speaking; focal point of the French-Canadian nationalist movement, which advocated independence for Quebec; French is the official language of Quebec
Quiet Revolution: a period of intense socio-cultural change in Quebec in the 1960s; associated with the realignment of politics into federalist and separatist factions
Retention Rate: whereby people with a given immigrant tongue speak the language at home
Total immersion: 100% of academic instruction is presented in the second language
Bilingual Education: education offered in two languages, a native and secondary language, with varying amounts of each language used in accordance with the program model.
Canada: a country in North America; the second largest country in the world; official languages English and French
Census Metropolitan Area (CMA) : area that has a total population of at least 100,000, of which 50,000 live in the core. Examples include Toronto and Montreal.
Culture: the attitudes, behavior characteristics, customs, arts, social institutions, and achievements of a particular nation, people, or social group
Dual Language Education: see Bilingual Education
(Language) Immersion: a method of teaching a second language in which the learners’ second language is the medium of classroom instruction. Through this method, learners study school subjects in their second language (L2)
Language: a method of human communication, spoken and written, consisting of the use of words in a structured and conventional way; language systems vary according to particular communities and cultures
Multilingual education: mother tongue language development followed by learning multiple additional languages. Can learn two or more languages through this system of education.
Official Language: a language that is given a special legal status in a particular country, state, or other jurisdiction. Typically a country's official language refers to the language used within its government
Official minority-language education (OMLE): educational policies that ensure that although an official language may be a minority in a certain board that they still have access to education in their mother tongue. This only applies to French and English within Canada.
Partial/extended immersion: 50% of academic instruction is presented in the second language and 50% in the native language
Quebec: province in Canada; the majority of its residents are French-speaking; focal point of the French-Canadian nationalist movement, which advocated independence for Quebec; French is the official language of Quebec
Quiet Revolution: a period of intense socio-cultural change in Quebec in the 1960s; associated with the realignment of politics into federalist and separatist factions
Retention Rate: whereby people with a given immigrant tongue speak the language at home
Total immersion: 100% of academic instruction is presented in the second language