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Publication Date: 1977-Apr
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Early And Late French Immersion: A Comparison of Children at Grade Seven.
Cziko, Gary A.; And Others
This report describes an evaluation of the effects of the early and grade 7 immersion programs on the English and French language skills of students at the end of grade 7 in Montreal. Tests of English language skills were administered to early immersion, grade 7 immersion, and English control students. Tests of French language skills were administered to the same groups and to a group of seventh grade native French speakers. A questionnaire designed to measure attitudes towards various ethnolinguistic groups was administered to the three groups of Anglophone students. A language use questionnaire determined students' use of French in and out of school. Results show that: (1) immersion programs are not detrimental to the development of English language skills or to academic achievement of children in such programs; (2) early immersion has a greater impact on the development of French language skills than does seventh grade immersion, but that the latter fostered the development of speaking skills; (3) at the end of the seventh grade, neither the early nor grade 7 immersion programs appear to have had any ameliorative effect on the attitudes of English Canadian students towards French Canadians and European French people; and (4) immersion students use French more outside of the classroom than do control students. (CLK)
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Bilingual Education, Bilingual Students, Elementary Secondary Education, English, French, Grade 7, Immersion Programs, Language Attitudes, Language Instruction, Language of Instruction, Language Proficiency, Language Skills, Language Usage, Negative Attitudes, Program Evaluation, Second Language Learning, Student Attitudes, Student Evaluation
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Identifiers - Location: Canada (Montreal)
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