Problems of Introducing French in Newfoundland

• Published in: The Canadian Modern Language Review
• Main Author: Brown, Dr. C.
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: University of Toronto Press Inc. (UTPress) 1972
• Subjects: Linguistics and Language; Education; Newfoundland
• Online Access: http://dx.doi.org/10.3138/cmlr.28.4.12; https://utpjournals.press/doi/pdf/10.3138/cmlr.28.4.12

I have been asked to speak to you on problems of implementing French language programs in Newfoundland schools. I have agreed to do this in the hope that if you are not impressed by what I say you will at least be impressed by my temerity in addressing a group of people far more competent in second language education than I am and advising them on the nature of their problems. A phrase of Bobby Bums is often quoted - “Wad some power the giftie gie us, to see ourselves as ithers see us.” Perhaps it may be possible for me, looking at the problem from the view point of someone who is not involved in the teaching of French but who is intimately concerned with the development of curriculum for Newfoundland schools, to give a new insight into old and familiar problems.