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- Title
Le passage du milieu francophone minoritaire au milieu francophone majoritaire : étude d'une expérience d'enseignants en formation pour comprendre l'influence du milieu sur le développement professionnel.
- Authors
Boutouchent, Fadila
- Abstract
The teacher education program for teaching French as a first and second language at the University of Regina in Saskatchewan demands advanced language skills, and requires students to spend their second year at Laval University in Quebec. During their first year, these students may experience their first contacts between Francophiles and Fransaskois learning the French minority language. Their beliefs, individual perceptions, and friendships are renegotiated during the second year, away from their home province and usual networks. For an entire year, these students live in a French majority environment, developing new learning strategies and perspectives. In this exploratory qualitative research, semistructured interviews were used to explore how the perceptions of seven participants changed after experiencing a French majority context. Upon their return, they were more motivated to use French, deplored the lack of resources and opportunities in their region, and were ready to contribute to increasing the number of French experiences within their home environment. The Francophone and French immersion participants described how contact with French "everywhere" had helped their language development. The results align with other studies situated in Francophone minority communities.
- Publication
Canadian Journal of Applied Linguistics / Revue Canadiennne de Linguistique Appliquée, 2016, Vol 19, Issue 1, p84
- ISSN
1481-868X
- Publication type
Article