This study provides diagnostic information about the word analysis skills in French of students at different ages in early immersion (grades 6, 8 and 10) late immersion (grades 8 and 10), and core French (grade 10). Such skills are important for reading comprehension and for dealing with academic content in the second language.
Birgit Harley, a professor in the Department of Curriculum, Teaching and Learning at OISE/UT, has conducted a number of detailed studies of immersion students' French language development.
Gladys Jean (MA in second language education from OISE/UT) is doing research on vocabulary acquisition. She is a former FSL teacher and an author of textbooks.