The status of French as one of Canada's two official languages is described, acknowledging the important role the post WWII nationalist movement in the Quebec Province played in stirring the national & provincial governments' interest in the revival of the French language. The work of the Office of the French Language in the 1960s & the significance of the Charter of the French Language, ie, the law 101 promulgated in 1977, is recognized, discussing: (1) the assimilation of immigrant children into French rather than English in Montreal schools, (2) efforts by the Quebec Association of French Teachers to develop a normative standard for Quebecois, ie, the French as spoken in Quebec, (3) the representation of the differences between Quebecois & Standard French in Quebec lexicography, (4) the issue of endogenous norm in the debate on teaching Quebecois, with its colloquial particularisms, as opposed to Standard French in Quebec schools, (5) the new educational policy launched by the Quebec Ministry of Education in 1986 favoring teaching of Standard French norm, (6) the essay writing performance of Quebec students vis-à-vis their peers in other Francophone countries; results of the 1993 study, & (7) recent measures by the Quebec Ministry of Education supporting French instruction in the province's schools. References. Z. Dubiel