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Languages in Contact: An Ethnographic Study of Interaction in an Immersion School
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Languages in Contact: An Ethnographic Study of Interaction in an Immersion School
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| Abstract |
Over a one-year period in the 1980s, the authors studied the staff interaction of an early French immersion program in a Montreal school. Staff at the school were made-up of French-speaking and English-speaking teachers. The authors found that the teachers used two main interaction strategies to minimize interpersonal conflict and maintain a semblance of professional harmony: 1) avoidance of social interaction; and 2) the predominant use of English in cross-group communication. The irony of how the staff interacted compared to the objectives of immersion school programs did not escape the authors' notice.
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TESOL Quarterly
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Vol. 18
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no. 4
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595-625
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December 1984
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en
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Cleghorn, Ailie, and Fred Genesee. “Languages in Contact: An Ethnographic Study of Interaction in an Immersion School.” TESOL Quarterly Vol. 18, no. 4 (December 1984): 595–625.
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