Linguistic representations of anglophone students attending a secondary school in British Columbia
Year:
2006
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Publishing Company:
, Simon Fraser University
Abstract
In this research, the teacher-researcher adopts a qualitative methodology to explore the linguistic representations of unilingual Anglophone students taking French as a second language at a secondary school in the lower mainland of British Columbia. Semi-structured group interviews are used to discover the students' representations of the French language, the English language, Francophones and Anglophones. The impact of these linguistic representations on the students' investment in the French language is discussed. Due to the absence of contact with Francophones, students do not have an elaborate reference representation of this cultural community but rather co-construct representations of an imagined Francophone community during the group interviews. Keywords. French as a second language; linguistic representations; investment; imagined communities.
Theme :
AnglophonesBritish ColumbiaSchool Setting
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