This study surveyed the attitudes of 59 Secondary V students of Greek origin who were studying in the French language. Their school, formerly an English Protestant High School, is located in the Province of Quebec. The school now contains groups of students in separate English-medium and French-medium programmes because language laws require more recent immigrants to be taught in French. The study showed that most of the students in the French programme are more proficient in English than in French, that their attitudes toward the French language are more instrumental or pragmatic than affective or integerative. These factors may be related to the fact that students in the French programme had lower levels of academic achievement.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:LACETR/oai:collectionscanada.gc.ca:QMM.60685 |
| Date | January 1991 |
| Creators | Waite, Richard |
| Publisher | McGill University |
| Source Sets | Library and Archives Canada ETDs Repository / Centre d'archives des thèses électroniques de Bibliothèque et Archives Canada |
| Language | English |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Electronic Thesis or Dissertation |
| Format | application/pdf |
| Coverage | Master of Arts (Faculty of Education.) |
| Rights | All items in eScholarship@McGill are protected by copyright with all rights reserved unless otherwise indicated. |
| Relation | alephsysno: 001274159, proquestno: AAIMM74526, Theses scanned by UMI/ProQuest. |
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