Etude comparative des representations culturelles des etudiants de niveaux debutant, intermediaire et avance des colleges anglophones publics de Montreal envers la langue francaise et les Quebecois dont la langue d'usage est le francais

• Main Author: Amireault, Valerie.
• Other Authors: Lussier, Denise (advisor)
• Format: Others
• Language: fr
• Published: McGill University 2002
• Subjects: French language > Study and teaching > Foreign speakers.; French language > Study and teaching > Québec (Province); Language and culture > Québec (Province); College students > Québec (Province) > Attitudes.
• Online Access: http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=29492

This work presents the results of a study on the development of cultural representations held by students from four public English-speaking colleges (cegeps) in the Montreal area towards the French language and Quebecers whose language of use is French. Our survey instrument aimed at knowing these cultural representations and at identifying different factors likely to influence the development of these representations according to the French level in which students are registered, either beginner or intermediate and advanced. === Our hypothesis is that students registered in the intermediate and advanced levels hold more positive cultural representations than beginners, therefore that there exists a significant difference between participants from both groups. In order to verify this hypothesis, a questionnaire, based on procedural knowledge and the affective domain, has been administered to 449 students from four different cegeps. The analysis of data linked to procedural knowledge demonstrates that there is indeed a significant difference between both groups with regards to the different factors that are likely to influence the development of cultural representations, with the exception of the travelling frequency of members of the participants' family. Furthermore, our analysis for the affective domain partly confirmed that students enrolled in intermediate and advanced courses in French generally hold more positive cultural representations towards the French language and Quebecers whose language of use is French than beginners.