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- Title
The Experience of Non-Francophone Parents in a French Minority-Language School.
- Authors
MacPhee, Mary; Turnbull, Miles; Cormier, Marianne; Miller, Tess
- Abstract
Parent involvement is an important indicator for student achievement and is especially important in minority language education. Across Canada a steadily increasing number of students in French minority-language schools come from Anglo-dominant families or other non-Francophone families, where little or no French is spoken. This highlights the importance of understanding the involvement of non-Francophone parents whose children attend French minority-language schools. This paper conveys the experiences, beliefs, and involvement of non-Francophone parents who have chosen a French minority-language school for their children in Atlantic Canada. French school administrators and teachers were also consulted. We relied on a mixed methods approach to improve understanding of this situation. The parents reported satisfaction with their choice of a French minoritylanguage school but also shared challenges they faced to being educationally involved with their children at home, at school, and in the community.
- Publication
Canadian Journal of Applied Linguistics / Revue Canadiennne de Linguistique Appliquée, 2017, Vol 20, Issue 1, p115
- ISSN
1481-868X
- Publication type
Article