"French Immersion: How exportable is the Canadian model?"
(Presentation in English/Présentation en Anglais.)

French immersion has provided inspiration for `immersion' programs elsewhere, and other content-based language teaching approaches in Canada. To what extent have its core features proven relevant to other contexts? What do the successes and failures of others' experiments with immersion tell us about how second languages are best taught, and about how we can improve our own immersion programs. How can we refine our export model?


Marjorie Wesche is a Professor at the Second Language Institute and Faculty of Education graduate programs at the University of Ottawa, and former director of the Institute. Her research interests center around second language acquisition and testing in instructed situations, with an emphasis on language input to learners, vocabulary acquisition through reading, performance testing, French immersion, and university content-based language teaching.