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Marika Kunnas – Canadian Modern Language Review, 2025
This paper presents three monologues created from an arts-based doctoral study investigating race and racism in French immersion programs in Ontario. French immersion has been criticized for being exclusionary, especially based on race (Yoon & Gulson, 2010), special education status (Wise, 2011), nationality, and home language (Mady, 2013). In…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Second Language Learning, French, Immersion Programs
Katherine Rehner; John Ippolito; Ivan Lasan; Gabrielle Forget; Claire Gouveia; Sarah Jones; Yifan Liu – Canadian Modern Language Review, 2025
This study explores adult migrants' formal and informal opportunities for learning their host country's dominant language: specifically, the availability, accessibility, and effects of these opportunities on the migrants' social integration. It prioritizes the migrants' experience by reporting findings obtained from analyses of questionnaire data…
Descriptors: Adult Learning, Migrants, Adults, Informal Education
Prioritizing Pronunciation Features for Intelligibility: A Perception Study of the French /E/ Vowels
Adam F. McBride; Céline Rose – Canadian Modern Language Review, 2025
Despite the fact that pronunciation is a vital aspect of language learning, previous research has shown that its instruction is limited in the classroom in terms of time and attention, due in part to the time constraints inherent in any curriculum. It then becomes essential for instructors to be strategic about the pronunciation features they…
Descriptors: Pronunciation, Vowels, Second Language Instruction, Second Language Learning
Cameron W. Smith – Canadian Modern Language Review, 2025
This article draws upon a 10-month study of core French as a second language (FSL) teachers to explore the professional identities that are produced in their work. Adopting rhizoanalysis and the Deleuzian concept of becoming, this article positions the ways in which these teachers both affect and are affected by the multiple material and…
Descriptors: Professional Identity, French, Language Teachers, Second Language Learning
Robin Couture-Matte – Canadian Modern Language Review, 2025
The present investigation aimed to assess the use of scaffolding strategies by young English as a second language learners who carried out communicative tasks in the context of high-immersive virtual reality (HVR) (Kaplan-Rakowski & Gruber, 2019). More specifically, 24 students enrolled in an intensive program in the province of Quebec,…
Descriptors: Computer Simulation, Second Language Instruction, Second Language Learning, Teaching Methods
Subrata Bhowmik; Kimberly Lenters; Rahat Zaidi; Erin Spring; Gustavo da Cunha Moura – Canadian Modern Language Review, 2025
Research has underlined the importance of communicative competence in order for newcomers to succeed and build resilience in their adopted homeland. Studies on this topic, however, have generally assumed the primacy of linguistic competence as the principal locus of investigation without paying due attention to the nuances of how new immigrants…
Descriptors: Multilingualism, Bilingual Students, Communicative Competence (Languages), Immigrants
Jean-Marc Dewaele; Delphine Guedat-Bittighoffer; Elouise Botes; Marie-Ange Dat – Canadian Modern Language Review, 2024
This cross-sectional mixed methods study investigates how intense and authentic communication shapes learners' enjoyment (FLE), anxiety (FLCA), and boredom (FLCB) in class. Participants were 181 beginning English foreign language learners aged 11 in three secondary schools in France. Statistical analyses revealed that pupils in classes with a…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Preadolescents, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning
Josée Le Bouthillier; Melissa Dockrill Garrett; Paula Kristmanson – Canadian Modern Language Review, 2024
Canada is facing a nationwide shortage of teachers of French as a second language. The profession is experiencing significant retention issues, with many teachers leaving the field within the first five years. One of the solutions proposed to address the challenges of teacher retention is for post-secondary institutions to integrate the concept…
Descriptors: French, Language Teachers, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
Dávid Smid; Sarah Mercer; Carlos Murillo-Miranda; Miri Tashma Baum – Canadian Modern Language Review, 2024
Well-being has been recognized as a basic human right, a core determinant of success in education, and a skill that can be developed. In language education, the literature suggests that higher well-being is likely to lead to more classroom engagement and ultimately greater success for learners. For English language teachers, there is a need to…
Descriptors: Well Being, English (Second Language), Multiple Literacies, Skill Development
Lauren Smith; Mark W. Tanner; Benjamin L. McMurry – Canadian Modern Language Review, 2024
Mindfulness has received increased attention recently in educational contexts as a tool helping students mitigate negative emotions, enhance resilience, reduce classroom anxiety, and improve academic performance. Although interventions that teach mindfulness principles have flourished in elementary school and university contexts, limited research…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, English (Second Language), Metacognition
Florian Hameau – Canadian Modern Language Review, 2024
If oral communication in a second language (L2) is considered a skill to be prioritized, it is also particularly anxiety-provoking for L2 learners. This is why their willingness to communicate, predicted in particular by the emotions experienced, has been the focus of recent studies to examine its evolution and factors likely to interact with it.…
Descriptors: Drama, Anxiety, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
Marika Kunnas; Gail Prasad; Taylor Boreland; Shayna Brissett-Foster – Canadian Modern Language Review, 2024
French-as-a-second-language (FSL) teacher candidates' French proficiency and confidence are key indicators of recruitment and retention of FSL teachers. This paper outlines a pilot project, the Conversation Club, that was used to address linguistic insecurity and proficiency in FSL teacher candidates at one university. The Conversation Club was a…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Language Teachers, Second Language Learning, French
Amir Michalovich – Canadian Modern Language Review, 2024
As Canada is increasingly committing to refugee resettlement, there is a critical need to understand how youth from refugee backgrounds can be supported to achieve their full potential in Canadian schools. This multi-year qualitative ethnographic case study explores the affordances of in-school video production for one plurilingual adolescent…
Descriptors: Affordances, Video Technology, Film Production, Multilingualism
Liang Cao – Canadian Modern Language Review, 2024
Drawing on ethnographic data, this article chronicles a Japanese queer immigrant's English learning experiences in a metropolitan area in western Canada. Informed by sociocultural theories and identity-centred approaches to Second Language Acquisition (SLA) research, I highlight the significance and interconnection between social identity,…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Immigrants, LGBTQ People, English Language Learners
Christina Tjandra – Canadian Modern Language Review, 2024
This study investigates the implications of engaging plurilingual children in creative multilingual placemaking practices on their language awareness and sense of belonging. Children participated in carefully designed class activities, engaging in tasks focused on reflecting on their own identities, the community's, and the neighbourhood's,…
Descriptors: Multilingualism, Creativity, Metalinguistics, Sense of Community