Describes the response of one Canadian community and its local school board to the challenge of producing functionally bilingual children within the context of the public school curriculum, grades K through 7. (CK)

The traditional discipline of foreign language teaching is ineffective and in trouble and should be replaced with a new, broader field. The new discipline should lay emphasis on the following: (1) awareness of cultural and linguistic diversity in the United States and Canada as well as abroad, (2) meeting the needs of students from all areas of…

A new approach to language instruction is proposed based on a study of the cultural and linguistic diversity at home and designed for a broad base of students beginning at the earliest grades. It should aim at functional bilinguality with the learning of the language incidental to learning about peoples and ways of life. (JMF)

This article reports on a pilot study undertaken to determine the effect that a new student exchange program would have on student attitudes and student motivation in second language learning. (CLK)

Part II of the first author's PhD dissertation, submitted to McGill University, Montreal, Canada (1965).