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SUMMARY:Supporting and promoting the value of FSL in the context of multilingual development
DESCRIPTION:Showcase meeting 1 – Thursday\, October 23\, 2025\n  \nHow can we support and ensure the promotion of French as an essential language in schools\, not only in a bilingual context\, but also in a multilingual development context?\n  \nPRESENTATION \n  \nCatherine Gosselin-Lavoie\, Assistant Professor of French Language Teaching\, Faculty of Education\, Université de Montréal\, and Claude Quevillon Lacasse\, Assistant Professor in the Faculty of Education at the University of Ottawa  \nMs. Gosselin-Lavoie and Ms. Quevillon Lacasse will discuss the promotion of French and language learning from an inclusive and additive perspective\, i.e.\, one in which the different languages in a student’s language repertoire (both those already known and those currently being learned) are seen as complementary rather than competing. The presenters will illustrate their points with concrete examples of teaching approaches tested in different French learning contexts: with newly arrived immigrant students\, in immersion classes\, and in minority contexts. \nIn preparation for the showcase meeting\, participants are encouraged to visit the website Les approches plurilingues dans les écoles de langue française en Ontario (Multilingual Approaches in French-Language Schools in Ontario) for an overview of the resources available to teachers outside Quebec who are interested in implementing teaching practices that promote linguistic and cultural diversity. \nPresentation in English (PDF) \nThe question and answer portion of the showcase meeting will be moderated by François Ouellette\, Director of the Éducation en français Division\, Government of Nunavut \nDownload the 2025-2026 showcase meeting poster  \n**NEW** Video recording (Zoom) of the showcase meeting
URL:https://tnfls-ntfsl.ca/en/event/supporting-and-promoting-the-value-of-fsl-in-the-context-of-multilingual-development-2/
CATEGORIES:Vitrine
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SUMMARY:Parents and FSL learning in Canada
DESCRIPTION:Showcase meeting 2 – Thursday\, November 27\, 2025\n  \nHow can we promote FSL to parents and facilitate access to programs for those who want it?\n  \nPRESENTATIONS:\n  \nRobert James Talbot\, Manager of Research\, Office of the Commissioner of Official Languages of Canada (OCOL)\, will briefly revisit some of the highlights of research from the Office of the Commissioner of Official Languages\, Accessing opportunity: A study on challenges in French-as-a-second-language education teacher supply and demand in Canada\, and link to the broader question of how to promote FSL education to parents and how to facilitate access to FSL programmes. He will do so not only by drawing upon the study\, but also his professional and personal experiences as a federal public servant at the Office of the Commissioner\, as a French immersion graduate himself\, and as a parent of children in French immersion today. He will also draw upon the wise words of his mother who\, when asked why his parents had put him in French immersion to begin with\, responded simply: “Well\, why not?” \nAhdithya Visweswaran\, Director\, Advocacy and Public Policy\, Canadian Parents for French\, will provide an update on the state of access to French as a second language programs across the country\, with a particular focus on French immersion. He will then present the existing policies and levers that influence the availability of these programs\, before unveiling Canadian Parents for French (Ontario)’s legislative project\, an initiative aimed at guaranteeing and strengthening access to immersion for all students who wish to learn in French. \nDOWNLOAD CPF PRESENTATION \nDOWNLOAD PRESENTATION BY THE OFFICE OF THE COMMISSIONER OF OFFICIAL LANGUAGES  \nSCREEN THE SHOWCASE MEETING VIDEO
URL:https://tnfls-ntfsl.ca/en/event/parents-and-fsl-learning-in-canada-2/
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