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Official Languages committee Thank you. Mr. Chair, dear members of the committee and partners, I wish you a good day. Allow me to introduce myself. I am Caroline Turnbull. I work with the New Brunswick Ministry of Education and Early Childhood Development, francophone sector. I also serve as vice-presiden
March 29th, 2012Committee meeting
Caroline Turnbull
Official Languages committee Thank you. The relationship that we have already established with Canadian Heritage is still very positive. We have been given opportunities to get informed and to share our activities, our research and our raison d'être with people who work at Canadian Heritage, including the O
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Official Languages committee Canada has a number of provinces and territories, and each of them is responsible for its own programs and curriculum content. A Canada-wide problem is that teachers, departments, schools and school districts do not interpret second-language learning in the same way. Should the
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Caroline Turnbull
Official Languages committee I am not from Hanwell. I am from New Maryland.
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Official Languages committee In certain parts of Canada, depending on how much an education board promotes second-language learning, greater emphasis is sometimes placed on first-language learning. We promote second-language learning, given its potential impact on cognitive development and on many other area
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Caroline Turnbull
Official Languages committee No, I just wanted to give you an example. For instance, I don't speak Japanese, but if I was asked to teach it, I would do my best to teach things that are related to that language. I would not be able to explain cultural sensitivities or perhaps even to speak in Japanese. In so
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Official Languages committee Yes, at times.
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Caroline Turnbull
Official Languages committee The Canadian Association of Second-Language Teachers conducted a survey to determine how many people usually remain in that profession. People were asked questions about second-language teaching and about the second-language teaching profession. The information gathered on this t
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Official Languages committee Yes, I think that it is very valued at home. Our province is officially bilingual, and it maintains its linguistic and cultural duality. We place great emphasis on programs for students. We place a lot of stress on both languages.
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Caroline Turnbull
Official Languages committee I would like to answer that question.
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Official Languages committee I think that New Brunswick is the only Canadian province to have a mandate, set by the premier, according to which 70% of graduates should be able to speak the second official language.
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Official Languages committee Back home, it is an obligation. Assessments are conducted annually in high schools to determine whether 70% of our youth meet the requirement—an intermediate level in oral communication.
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Caroline Turnbull
Official Languages committee No, but....
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Official Languages committee Our association certainly focuses on supporting all second-language teachers, teachers of English as a second language and teachers of French as a second language, in addition to some international language teachers as well. We work very well with our partners at ACPI , who supp
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Caroline Turnbull