Brief interethnic exchanges and classroom language learning
(Presentation in English / Présentation en Anglais.)

This study examines brief SEVEC exchanges as a complement to classroom language learning for school-aged learners of French in Canada. A three stage design using both quantitative and qualitative measures provided a description of the factors involved in such exchanges as well as the language acquisition processes in operation.


Alina MacFarlane is Coordinator of Special ESL Programs and a professor of ESL at the Second Language Institute of the University of Ottawa. She also taught FSL at the secondary level for twenty years.