NEWS: CMLR – Call For Papers: 2023 Special Issue

The Canadian Modern Language Review is seeking papers for our 2023 Special Issue on Teaching French in a minority setting: practices, policies, cultures and learning.

Deadline: September 16, 2022.

A minority language setting is characterized by the coexistence of several languages over a given territory, an often significant difference between the number of speakers of the majority and minority languages, and complex power issues between dominant and minoritized groups (Gérin-Lajoie, 2018). Thus, offering schooling in the language of the linguistic minority often becomes the best means to ensure the linguistic vitality of the minoritized group. In Canada, the use of French as a teaching language was long banned in several provinces and Francophones had to fight to obtain, throughout the country, French language school systems (Sylvestre & Lévesque, 2018; Von Staden & Sterzuk, 2017). More recently, with the migratory trends that reflect our times, classrooms have become increasingly heterogenous at a linguistic and cultural level. This diversification, while a source of richness, still means that practice and research communities must reconsider the missions underlying French language education in minority settings (Cavanagh, Cammarata & Blain, 2016) and re-examine themselves, among other things, in relation with teaching French as a language of education in the official linguistic minorities’ schools (Thibeault & Fleuret, 2020).

With this in mind, The Canadian Modern Language Review wishes to publish papers on teaching French where that language has minority status. With the aim of gathering papers on teaching French in a variety of contexts, we are asking for articles relating to minority settings in Canada. In doing so, we hope to open a dialogue to highlight the features of each setting, but also the cross-characteristics linked to a variety of educational environments. The authors, whether they specialize in language teaching, educational policies, sociology or another discipline related to teaching French, will be asked to present issues relevant to their setting and, most importantly, present a paper that particularly focuses on teaching French. Whether written in French or English, the articles chosen for publication will be empirical in nature and will be rooted in a qualitative, quantitative or mixed methodology.

 

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