 This article is written by Desiree Dallaire, a French Immersion teacher on Vancouver Island. She is currently completing her Master’s degree in Educational Leadership at VIU, focusing on harnessing the power of teacher beliefs to co-create vision in the French Immersion Programme.
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 Étant Acadienne, cet article résonne avec moi ;)
 Ce mois-ci le blogue de l'ACPI est écrit par Sylvie Roy, auteure de L'immersion en français au Canada. Le guide est une ressource utile en formation des futurs enseignants ainsi que pour les enseignants dans les écoles d'immersion.
 This Google doc, compiled by a teacher, offers links to many articles related to the use of levelled books used with students.
 This report from Canadian Parents for French gives updates on the following topics: student French proficiency, English language learner, participation and performance in FSL programs and core French students' motivation to learn French.
 An interesting article that gives us information to pass on to our students learning a second language!
 In this article, Palmer notices that students code-switch (move easily between two languages within a conversation or utterance) despite the motivational system in place to discourage it. In fact, she states that the system offers students a tool for manipulating power in the classroom. The conclusion from this research is to encourage teachers to allow conversational code-switches while expecting students to produce spoken and written text in one language where appropriate. And, perhaps motivational systems for encouraging language speaking has unintended consequences. Found for thought...
 With the increase in research related to bilingualism, this article is an interesting one that describes how bilingual brains create students that are attentive, empathetic, engaged and perform better in school.
Rethinking pedagogical assumptions in Canadian French immersion programs - Jim Cummins (2014)12/5/2016  Jim Cummins' has written this article to challenge some long held assumptions related to French immersion. This article is easy to read. If you do so, please let me know...I'd be eager to chat with you :)
 The Canadian Modern Language Review publishes peer-reviewed articles on second language learning and teaching. It is a bilingual (French and English) journal of international repute, serving researchers and language teaching professionals interested in the learning and teaching of English and French as second languages (Canada’s two official languages), as well as the range of modern, indigenous, heritage, and community languages taught and learned across Canada. CMLR is available online and in print at Yukon Education..
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