Children learn languages extremely quickly when immersed early and multilingual children in studies around the world have also been found to learn faster and be placed better later in life than those who are unilingual, it said.
To achieve Quebec's vision of "an ethnically pluralistic but linguistically unilingual francophone nation" (Behiels 1991,22), the Ministere de l'Education, de l'Enseignement superieur (MEES) (formerly Ministere de l'Education du loisir et du sport [MELS]) created curricular policies intending to attune students to diversity and to prepare them to live in a diverse society.
It is certain that each time there is an event like that: some arrogance from a unilingual Anglophone, which is what it is, it reinforces FrancoOntarians' conviction.
When it comes to the content language(s), 72.92 per cent of journals (105) are unilingual, 19.44 per cent as bilingual (28), 4.17 titles (6) in three languages, 2.78 per cent titles (4) in four languages and a single title (0.69%) is published in more than four languages.
Zorn's story is a different one, though there is a Montreal multicultural reality here too, since his father was a unilingual American married to a French Canadian.
While the University of Alberta was very much a unilingual, anglophone institution, the doctoral program in educational administration did purposefully include francophones.
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