Minority Language Students in a French Programme: Their French Proficiency.

Bild, Eva-Rebecca; Swain, Merrill

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Publication Date: 1989

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Minority Language Students in a French Programme: Their French Proficiency.

Bild, Eva-Rebecca; Swain, Merrill

Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, v10 n3 p255-74 1989

A comparison of the French proficiency of bilingual and monolingual native English, Italian, or non-Romance language speaking eighth graders in an Ontario bilingual program found that the bilingual students generally performed better than monolingual students on cloze procedure tests and story telling tasks. (40 references) (Author/CB)

Descriptors: Bilingualism, Cloze Procedure, Comparative Analysis, Context Clues, English, Foreign Countries, French, Grade 8, Immersion Programs, Language Proficiency, Second Language Instruction

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