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Simon, Roger I.; Willinsky, John – Journal of Education, 1980
Argues that the articulation of school language policies deserves careful attention as they implicitly formulate a hidden curriculum with reference to the relation between education and society. Discusses issues in context of policy developed in an urban high school in Ontario. Considers cultural values, social convention, and social control.…
Descriptors: Educational Policy, Elementary Secondary Education, Language Attitudes, Language Planning
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Clarke, Sandra; And Others – Language Variation and Change, 1995
Offers evidence that contradicts the idea of a relatively homogeneous North American dialect area in which vowel systems remain fairly stable. The article examines back vowel fronting in Canadian English and its relationship to the shift affecting the front lax vowels, as well as to the general principles of vowel chain shifting. (29 references)…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Dialects, Foreign Countries, Language Variation
Lamontagne, Linda – 1996
The report, entirely in French, details a study of the concepts of "anglicism" drawn from a wide sample of French Canadian metalinguistic material published between 1800 and 1930. The study analyzed the use of the term "anglicism" and various associated concepts, identified the principal trends in the way anglicisms were…
Descriptors: Diachronic Linguistics, English, Foreign Countries, French
British Council, London (England). English-Teaching Information Centre. – 1973
This bibliography is divided into five sections. The second, third, fourth, and fifth sections are each devoted to publications in one specified area, American, Canadian, Australian, and New Zealand English respectively. The first section lists bibliographies pertaining to all of these areas. Entries in all sections include both American and…
Descriptors: Bibliographies, Dialect Studies, English, Language Usage
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Dailey-O'Cain, Jennifer – Language Variation and Change, 1997
Provides evidence from a small northern U.S. city for Canadian raising, a Canadian phenomenon that heightens the onset of diphthongs in /ai/ and /au/ relative to the low central onset in neighboring dialects. Findings suggest that the Canadian diphthong varieties may not be conforming to the U.S. norm, but instead that the two varieties are…
Descriptors: Descriptive Linguistics, Foreign Countries, Hypothesis Testing, Language Research
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Mignault, Louis B. – Canadian Modern Language Review, 1992
Historical/sociocultural circumstances of the French language in Canada are outlined and the role of Quebec French in Canadian language education is discussed, focusing on its place in French teaching outside Quebec and in development of bilingualism. Establishment of a Quebecois language is viewed as essential to French Canadian cultural…
Descriptors: Bilingualism, Foreign Countries, French, Language Attitudes
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Rehner, Katherine; Mougeon, Raymond – Canadian Modern Language Review, 1999
Investigates a case of linguistic variation observable in the spoken French of students from French-immersion programs in Ontario, namely alternation between negative constructions with and without the negative particle "ne." (Author/VWL)
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, French, Immersion Programs, Language Variation
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Meney, Lionel – French Review, 1994
It is argued that anglicisms in Canadian French cover a much broader spectrum than in any European variety of French, with traits of the English language incorporated into spelling, pronunciation, morphology, syntax, lexicon, and phraseology. A typology of these features is proposed, with examples. (Author/MSE)
Descriptors: Classification, English, Foreign Countries, French
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Cox, Terry B. – Canadian Modern Language Review, 1998
Proposes a model for a French phonetics course in Canada based on Canadian usage, using an inventory of segmental features in published descriptions of Canadian French that has been modified based on comparison with features common to television news readers. The resulting model is of an unstigmatized Canadian French. (Author/MSE)
Descriptors: College Curriculum, Course Organization, Foreign Countries, French
Algeo, John, Ed. – 2001
This book is one volume in a series that examines the history of English. It traces the history of English in North America during the past 400 years, from its British background to its present position among the varieties of English used worldwide. Influences that have formed American English include political, social, and cultural changes in…
Descriptors: Black Dialects, Diachronic Linguistics, Foreign Countries, Grammar
Mear-Crine, A. M. – Francais dans le Monde, 1977
This article reviews the situation of the instruction of French in Quebec, in terms of the role of French and attitudes toward standard and non-standard varieties of French, the acquisition of French by native French speakers. Bidialectal instruction is suggested as one way of dealing with non-standard varieties. (Text is in French.) (CLK)
Descriptors: Child Language, French, Language Instruction, Language Role
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Morgan, Brian – TESOL Quarterly, 1997
Drawing on reflections of a teacher-researcher in a community-based adult ESL classroom in Toronto, Canada, explores the relationship between identity and intonation. Presents an account of teaching intonation to a group of predominantly Chinese immigrant women, and discusses an activity that develops awareness of sentence-level intonation as a…
Descriptors: Adults, English (Second Language), Females, Foreign Countries
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Larrivee, Pierre – 1993
In Quebec French, unlike standard French, sentence negation "pas" ("not") can occur in the same clause as a negative quantifier like "personne" ("nobody"), for instance. This paper proposes that "pas" in these contexts marks negative association in the same way that "ne" does in standard…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, French, French Canadians, Language Patterns
Gesner, Edward – 1985
A lexical comparison of four native speakers' spontaneous discourse in the Acadian French spoken in a southern Nova Scotia village with standard spoken French is described. This study is part of a larger study of four regional variations on Nova Scotia Acadian French and has as its objectives both linguistic analysis and improvement of standard…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Descriptive Linguistics, Dialect Studies, Foreign Countries
Canale, Michael; And Others – 1977
This study examines the use of the auxiliaries "avoir" and "etre" and of the prefix "re-" in the speech of Franco-Ontarian students. It is found that the tendency to use non-standard constructions such as "j'ai arrive en retard" and "je vais remettre la roue 'back'" has its origins in historical…
Descriptors: Diachronic Linguistics, Dialect Studies, French, Language Research
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