LE JEUNE QUÉBÉCOIS ET LES LANGUES MODERNES

Authors

  • Jan Lobelle McGill University

Abstract

Learning a second language has come to mean almost exclusively French or English in Canada and Quebec, an undertaking trammelled distractingly with social, economic and political overtones. Lobelle investigates the teaching of German, Spanish and Italian in Quebec schools, and names the considerable obstacles in their way. He discusses the pedagogical advantages of learning a modern language, and ends with a consideration of certain remedies of organisation and coordination that have been proposed, including that of secondary schools in major centres that would specialise in modern language instruction, on a model that has been successful in Russia.

Author Biography

Jan Lobelle, McGill University

Jan Lobelle is an Associate Professor and former Chairman of the Department of Education in Second Languages at McGill. His interests are in the training of teachers of modern languages and in bilingual education. He has been a Quebec educational consultant, and was the coordinator of the COCOFIL French Program in Louisiana from 1973 to 1975.

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Published

1978-04-01

How to Cite

Lobelle, J. (1978). LE JEUNE QUÉBÉCOIS ET LES LANGUES MODERNES. McGill Journal of Education / Revue Des Sciences De l’éducation De McGill, 13(002). Retrieved from https://mje.mcgill.ca/article/view/7205

Issue

Vol. 13 No. 002 (1978)

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