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Collaboration and Co-Construction of Knowledge during Language Awareness Activities in Canadian Elementary School
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Dagenais, Diane; Walsh, Nathalie; Armand, Francoise; Maraillet, Erica – Language Awareness, 2008
Drawing on Language Awareness (LA) approaches developed for francophone classrooms and a sociocultural theoretical perspective on language and learning that posits the genesis of new knowledge construction is situated in social interactions and shaped by socio-historical context, we conducted a small-scale case study of the implementation of LA…
Descriptors: Metalinguistics, Official Languages, Focus Groups, Elementary Schools
Promoting Multilingualism through French Immersion and Language Maintenance in Three Immigrant Families.
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Dagenais, Diane; Berron, Catherine – Language, Culture and Curriculum, 2001
Examines the language practices in three immigrant families of South Asian ancestry who reside in Canada and have chosen French immersion education for their children. Based on interview data, presents a profile of the inter- and intra-generational language interactions that distinguish each family. Describes their reasons for maintaining their…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, French, Immersion Programs, Immigrants
A Multilingual Child's Literacy Practices and Contrasting Identities in the Figured Worlds of French Immersion Classrooms
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Dagenais, Diane; Day, Elaine; Toohey, Kelleen – International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism, 2006
In this paper, we explore the intersection of practice, identity, resources and literacy central to the New Literacy Studies and recent second language research informed by sociocultural theories of learning and language. Drawing on the construct figured worlds of literacy that describe how representations of literacy practices invoked in relation…
Descriptors: Multilingualism, Children, Literacy, French
Accessing Imagined Communities through Multilingualism and Immersion Education.
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Dagenais, Diane – Journal of Language, Identity, and Education, 2003
Applies constructs of language as economic and symbolic capital, transnationalism, investment, and imagined community to analysis of interviews with immigrant parents living in Vancouver, Canada. These parents promote multilingualism by maintaining their family language and enrolling their children in French immersion programs. Argues they view…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, French, Immersion Programs, Immigrants
Classroom Language Experiences of Trilingual Children in French Immersion.
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Dagenais, Diane; Day, Elaine – Canadian Modern Language Review, 1998
Reports the case studies of three trilingual elementary school children in separate Vancouver (British Columbia) early French immersion classes, focusing on themes emerging from analysis related to the children's literacy practices and contexts for language learning, and the teachers' perceptions of these students and representations of…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Classroom Communication, Classroom Environment, Elementary Education
Home Language Practices of Trilingual Children in French Immersion.
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Dagenais, Diane; Day, Elaine – Canadian Modern Language Review, 1999
Draws on sociocultural theories of language and learning and research on bilingual families to examine home language practices of trilingual-immersion students. Ethnography was used to explore daily language use at home, children's views of their identity as trilingual, families' values of maintenance and additional language learning, and reasons…
Descriptors: Ethnography, Family Environment, Foreign Countries, French