In French Immersion Ideologies in Canada, Sylvie Roy gives voice to people who have experiences with French immersion programs in Alberta, Canada. Using a sociolinguistics for change approach, she interprets questions related to language ideologies, as well as reasons people learn French as an additional language and why some students are asked to learn English first. She also reflects on what it means to become or to be bilingual or multilingual in a globalized world. Roy discusses teachers’ and learners’ linguistic and cultural practices and examines transculturality for the future. By questioning concepts that recur in participants’ narratives, this book explores how power is reproduced, who is marginalized in the process, and what can be done to deconstruct ideologies about learning and teaching French in Canada and in the world. Roy demonstrates complex issues related to the French language and their consequences for learners, parents, teachers, and administrators. 

The central aim of language teaching is typically to prepare learners to communicate through the language learnt. However, much current language teaching theory and practice is based on a simplistic view of communication that fails to match the multilingual and intercultural reality of the majority of second language (L2) use. This Element examines the relationship between language and culture through an L2 in intercultural and transcultural communication. It puts forward the argument that we need to go beyond communicative competence in language teaching and focus instead on intercultural and transcultural awareness. Implications for pedagogic practice are explored including intercultural and transcultural language education.

El Pacte Nacional per la Llengua és un projecte de país i defineix la voluntat d’aquest Govern de tractar els temes relacionats amb el català d’una manera frontal, transversal, dialogant i rigorosa. Aquest últim punt és important: per a l’èxit del debat sobre el present i el futur de la llengua, cal que totes les aportacions es basin en dades contrastades. L'informe que teniu a les mans, elaborat per experts de reconeguda trajectòria, excel·leix en l’equilibri de rigor, síntesi i claredat. La voluntat que té és encetar un debat positiu i orientat a propostes constructives.

nguages are a core component of human rights and fundamental freedoms. They play a crucial role in the daily lives of people all over the world, allowing them to preserve and transmit their knowledge, values, unique modes of thinking, meaning and expression, history, culture, traditions, and memory to the next generations, but also to participate to society and to construct their future. The extraordinary language diversity found in the world fundamentally contributes to sustainable development, peacebuilding and reconciliation in our societiesLanguages are a core component of human rights and fundamental freedoms. They play a crucial role in the daily lives of people all over the world, allowing them to preserve and transmit their knowledge, values, unique modes of thinking, meaning and expression, history, culture, traditions, and memory to the next generations, but also to participate to society and to construct their future. The extraordinary language diversity found in the world fundamentally contributes to sustainable development, peacebuilding and reconciliation in our societies

Languages are a core component of human rights and fundamental freedoms. They play a crucial role in the daily lives of people all over the world, allowing them to preserve and transmit their knowledge, values, unique modes of thinking, meaning and expression, history, culture, traditions, and memory to the next generations, but also to participate to society and to construct their future. The extraordinary language diversity found in the world fundamentally contributes to sustainable development, peacebuilding and reconciliation in our societiesLanguages are a core component of human rights and fundamental freedoms. They play a crucial role in the daily lives of people all over the world, allowing them to preserve and transmit their knowledge, values, unique modes of thinking, meaning and expression, history, culture, traditions, and memory to the next generations, but also to participate to society and to construct their future. The extraordinary language diversity found in the world fundamentally contributes to sustainable development, peacebuilding and reconciliation in our societies

The city as a complex socio-cultural structure plays a central role, economically, administratively as well as culturally. Factors such as higher population density, a more expansive infrastructure, and larger social and cultural diversity compared to rural areas have a substantial impact on urban society and urban communication.
Focusing on the latter, the contributions to this volume discuss the characteristics and dynamics of urban language use, considering aspects such as contact, variation and change, as well as identity, indexicality, and attitudes, but also spatial factors including mobility, urbanisation/counterurbanisation, and diffusion processes.
The collected articles provide an update of ‘first wave’ approaches of variationist sociolinguistics, but also establish a connection to ‘third wave’ research for readers from a broad range of fields, especially sociolinguistics, variationist linguistics, and dialectology. The book presents modern methodological and conceptual ideas and a wealth of new findings but also serves as a reference work, combining theoretical discussions with results from recent empirical studies.