Aboriginal Languages in Quebec: Fighting Linguicide with Bilingual Education

Stillbirth and infant mortality in Aboriginal communities in Quebec.

BACKGROUND Infant mortality and stillbirth rates among Aboriginal people are higher than in the rest of Canada, but little is known on the perinatal health status of First Nations people living on reserves. This study examines stillbirth and infant mortality rates among Aboriginal people in Quebec, notably, First Nations people living on reserves, and compares these rates with those of the prov...

Bilingual Discourse Markers in Indigenous Languages

This review of research considers the occurrence and function of Spanish discourse markers and other particles in indigenous speech. I discuss important research that has examined these phenomena and refer to studies of bilingual discourse markers in other non-indigenous language contact situations to address unresolved issues concerning the form and function of these particles in indigenous la...

Subcortical organization of languages in bilingual brain

One of the most important and least studied issues in neurolinguistics is the subcortical organization of languages in the bilingual brain. In this paper, the linguistic disorders and patterns of recovery in three aphasic patients with subcortical lesions in striatocapsular area have been studied. It was concluded that in bilinguals, languages might be lateralized in subcortical areas of the le...

Miscommunication between Aboriginal Students and their Non- Aboriginal Teachers in a Bilingual School

Quality of Continuing Education: a Quebec Example in Teacher Education

Confronted with the diverse problems that university continuing education is facing, our presentation focuses on the continuing education of primary and secondary school teachers which indeed, is experiencing two problems: a decrease in government funding, and a decline in numbers, for university continuing education seems irrelevant for teachers who register in it. We choose to broach the ques...