Official Languages committee  Core French…

Official Languages committee  On the anglophone side, the immersion program is now available from grade 3. I am actually a teacher, but I have been working in the francophone section of the ministry of education for 12 years. My main responsibilities are for English as a second language for francophones.

Official Languages committee  It's not grade 5 any more.

Official Languages committee  I think that the current government of New Brunswick is studying the matter and will make its views known in due course.

Official Languages committee  I can see both sides of the issue. On the one hand, if children keep their mother tongue in order to acquire basic literacy skills in their first language, it can help them to develop skills in the second language starting in grade 3. However, it is preferable for a true immersio

Official Languages committee  Certainly. Thank you. When we study and look at the road map possibilities, we would definitely hope to see that there is an accent on youth. The young people of Canada are citizens of Canada as well, and we would hope that all our young citizens and our young people in the pro

Official Languages committee  So we should be focusing on opportunities and conditions for our youth. Again, there is education. Education doesn't stop on June 29 after you have received your grade 12 diploma, nor does it end on the day you graduate from university or community college or an institute for l

Official Languages committee  I am.

Official Languages committee  Yes. There is always more to be done, but I find that our province and our school systems are putting more emphasis on teaching the second official language, given that our province is officially bilingual. As examples, I could mention the intensive French program, which all you

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

Official Languages committee  Yes, absolutely. One of the main tasks that our association has undertaken for the last five or six years has been to bring forward the Common European Framework of Reference for Languages to Canada and disseminate information about it. One interesting and important thing assoc

Official Languages committee  I would like to answer that question.

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.

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.

Official Languages committee  No, but....