ERIC Number: EJ808242
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2007
Pages: 9
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ISSN: ISSN-0165-0254
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Friendship and Identity in a Language-Integrated School
Aboud, Frances E.; Sankar, Janani
International Journal of Behavioral Development, v31 n5 p445-453 2007
A cross-sectional design was used to inquire about peer relations of 85 second and fifth grade students in two integrated Anglophone and Francophone schools in Montreal, Canada. Data on same- and cross-ethnic identification, interactive companions and mutual best friends were collected for each student. Overall findings were that students had more companions from their own than the other ethno-linguistic group, but equivalent numbers of mutual best friends. Same- and cross-ethnic mutual friends were rated similarly in terms of friendship quality (as assessed by the McGill Friendship Questionnaire). Exploratory in-depth interviews with 16 students indicated that cross-ethnic relationships ran into two barriers. One was that they were limited to only a few activities and locations and so did not become personalized. The second was that in-group and out-group friends did not always mix well. (Contains 4 tables.)
Descriptors: Friendship, Peer Relationship, Grade 2, Grade 5, Elementary School Students, Ethnicity, Foreign Countries, Social Integration, Language of Instruction, Intergroup Relations, French, English, Problems
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Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research
Education Level: Elementary Education; Grade 2; Grade 5
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Language: English
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Identifiers - Location: Canada (Montreal)
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