French as a Second Language (FSL)



Canadian Site: ALLE. Alberta Language Learning Environment
ALLE is a technology enhanced learning project that concerns all second languages taught in Alberta at any level from beginner to advanced, K-12 to post-secondary. It is run by the Universities of Calgary and Alberta, and Mount Royal College. The site describes the ALLE project and its activities, and it also provides a well organized set of links related to the field of computer assisted language learning (articles, resources and references).

Canadian Site: Applications pedagogiques de l'internet
This well organized site is intended for the use of French immersion students and teachers at the elementary and secondary levels, with the emphasis on the latter. It also provides links of interest to learners and teachers of French as a second language in core programs.

Canadian Site: Core French 5 to 12. Integrated Resource Package.
The core French IRP was published by the Ministry of Education of British Columbia in 1995. It provides the basic information that B.C. teachers require in order to implement the French as a second language curriculum. This guideline is structured in terms of 4 curriculum organizers: prescribed learning outcomes, suggested instructional strategies, suggested assessment strategies, and recommended learning resources.

Canadian Site: The Council of Second Language Programs in Canada
The CSLP is an association of public postsecondary institutions offering intensive language training in English or French. Their website provides information about the French and English as second language programs in each of the participating colleges and universities.

Canadian Site: Creative French Teaching Methods
A very engaging and practical page designed for the French as a second language teacher (core and immersion). Provides links to resource pages, curriculum planning ideas, and classroom activities.

Canadian Site: French Immersion K-12. Integrated Resource Package. Ministry of Education, British Columbia
The Integrated Resource package (IRP) published in 1997 for French immersion in B.C. provides the basic information that kindergarten to grade 12 teachers need to implement the F.I. curriculum.

Canadian Site: French as a Second Language: Core French. The Ontario Curriculum, Grades 4-8.
The purpose of this curriculum guideline issued by the Ontario Ministry of Education and Training in 1998 is to set the minimum expectations that all Ontario students in English-language elementary schools are required to attain in French as a second language. The curriculum describes the required knowledge and skills for each grade from grades 4-8.

Canadian Site: French as a Second Language: Core, Extended and Immersion. The Ontario Curriculum, Grades 9-10.
The Core French, Extended French, and French Immersion programs differ in intensity but share a common purpose: to develop students' oral communication, reading, and writing skills in the French language.

Canadian Site: French as a Second Language, and International Languages at the School of Continuing Studies, University of Toronto
The University of Toronto offers second language instruction in many languages (including French as a second language) through the School of Continuing Studies: Arabic, Cantonese, Dutch, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Mandarin, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish, Turkish. Please visit the site for a current listing.

Canadian Site: Grade 9 and 10 Secondary School Course Profiles (incl ESL and FSL): Ontario Ministry of Education
Intended as an aid for teachers, the Course Profiles, funded by the Ontario Ministry of Education, have been developed by partnerships of school boards and subject associations to help with the implementation of the Grade 9 Ontario Curriculum. They include Course Profiles for English as a Second Language and Literacy Development, and French as a Second Language- Core, Extended and Immersion.

Canadian Site: La culture francophone. C'est chouette
A very professional Canadian site sponsored by the French Embassy in Ottawa and the Department of French at the University of Toronto. It has links to all aspects of French language and culture. It is presented in French.

Leximagne-l'empereur des pages dico@ Globe-Gate
This site offers a collection of over 350 electronic French dictionaries, glossaries and wordlists (historical, current, technical, French-Canadian, etc..) giving access to hundreds of thousands of words, terms and expressions.

Lingua@web - A teaching tool for Spanish, French, Italian, and German
This site offers learning/teaching materials in Spanish, French, Italian and German at several levels of proficiency. This free site is as good as most language programs sold on compact discs.

Canadian Site: Office de la langue française
OLF est un organisme gouvernemental chargé de faire le maintien et la promotion du français au Québec.

Canadian Site: Ontario Ministry of Education Guidelines in Progress
This site contains draft versions of Ontario Ministry guidelines for a number of secondary school subjects at the grade 11-12 levels, including English as a Second Language, French as a Second Language, and Classical and International Languages.

Canadian Site: REPSIT. A la decouverte du monde francophone. Bienvenue au repertoire analytique 1998.
Ce repertoire analytique a l'Universite de Calgary contient plus de 500 sites. Il vise un public interesse a l'enseignement ou a l'apprentissage de la langue francaise, la litterature et la culture francophone.

Canadian Site: Ressources en français langue seconde / Resources for Students of French as a Second Language
Designed at the University of Ottawa, this site contains links to exercises and resources for students, and resources for teachers such as information about French in Canada outside Quebec, Quebec, France, francophonie in the world, and miscellaneous info rmation related to FSL.

Canadian Site: Season's Greetings.
In this site, Pete Jones, Head of Moderns in a Pickering, Ontario high school offers the French teacher linguistic, cultural and musical activities based on Christmas, Valentines, Easter and Halloween.

Tennessee Bob's Famous French links
A comprehensive and regularly updated database of links to francophone sites all over the world. Includes links to French literature, art, music, history, tourism, film, teaching resources etc...

Canadian Site: Useful Links to Languages
This site is maintained by Pete Jones, Head of Modern Languages in an Ontario secondary school. It has a wide range of links of interest to the language teaching profession including links to the following languages:French, Spanish, Chinese, Japanese, and Italian.

Volterre_Fr
Provides extensive links and resources for teachers and learners of English as a second language, and French as a second language. Priority is given to French and European sources.

Canadian Site: Welcome to Cooperative Learning in the French Class.
Produced by Pete Jones, Head of Moderns in a Pickering, Ontario high school, this site offers a variety of small group cooperative materials which teachers can use freely in their French classes.


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