EDEC 247 Lecture Notes - Lecture 20: Francization, Charter Of The French Language, Interculturalism

• School: McGill University
• Department: Curriculum and Instruction
• Course: EDEC 247
• Professor: Tino Bordonaro

Document Summary

Interculturalism is cultural convergence, it puts the cultures all together. This is what we have here: there is an intent to have cultures converge, and that point of convergence is the french language, cultural developments, 1963 royal commissions on bilingualism and biculturalism (b&b commissions) is established. Canada should recognize its two languages and its two cultures: 1971 ca(cid:374)ada"s first (cid:373)ulti(cid:272)ulturalis(cid:373) poli(cid:272)(cid:455) (cid:449)ithi(cid:374) the (cid:271)ili(cid:374)gual framework is tabled, 1977 the charter of the french language (bill 101). Arabian: csdm mother tongues: french (47. 85%), arabic (10. 93%), Tamil, vietnamese: contemporary quebec policies intercultural cultural convergence, wel(cid:272)o(cid:373)i(cid:374)g (cid:272)lasses (cid:894)(cid:272)lasses d"a(cid:272)(cid:272)euil(cid:895, it only exists formally and officially in french schools. A welcome class in an english school is not part of the official policy. These welcome classes are about a year long, to help students become somewhat proficient in french. This is done to integrate the students into the regular stream as soon as possible.