Multiculturalism and integration : Canadian and Irish experiences / edited by Vera Regan, Isabelle Lemée and Maeve Conrick.

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TextLanguage: English, French Publication details: Ottawa [Ont.] : University of Ottawa Press, 2010 2011)Description: 1 online resource (283 pages)Content type:

text

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computer

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online resource

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9780776619330
0776619330

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305.800971 22

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F1035.A1 M835 2010eb

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Contents:

Introduction : multiculturalism and integration / Maeve Conrick and Vera Regan -- Part I : Multiculturalism, integration and linguistic diversity : Canadian and Irish models and experiences -- Immigration, langue et diversité ethnoculturelle en Ontario / Linda Cardinal, Nathalie Plante and Anik Sauvé -- Diachronic and synchronic perspectives on the French language in Canada : multilingualim, language, contact, norms and usage / Maeve Conrick and Vera Regan -- Immersion education in Ireland and Canada : L2 immersion adolescents in L1 Anglophone settings / Caitri︠ona Ni︠ Chasaide and Vera Regan -- The linguistic impact of target-language contact on the speech of Irish and Canadian learners of French L2 / Isabelle Lemée.

Summary: Multiculturalism and Integration provides new insights into the important issues of diversity, reasonable accommodation and identity construction in multicultural societies by examining the experiences of Canada and Ireland. While these two societies share many historical and cultural links, their differences help reveal the range of possible approaches to these important issues. Multicultural and multilingual diversity in contemporary Ireland are fairly recent phenomena, whereas Canada's policies and practices addressing cultural and linguistic diversity are several decades old. This basic dif.

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Includes bibliographical references (pages 243-266) and index.

Text mostly in English with some in French.

Multiculturalism and Integration provides new insights into the important issues of diversity, reasonable accommodation and identity construction in multicultural societies by examining the experiences of Canada and Ireland. While these two societies share many historical and cultural links, their differences help reveal the range of possible approaches to these important issues. Multicultural and multilingual diversity in contemporary Ireland are fairly recent phenomena, whereas Canada's policies and practices addressing cultural and linguistic diversity are several decades old. This basic dif.

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