L'identite ethnolinguistique et les eleves 16 ans ou plus qui frequentent les ecoles secondaires de langue francaise de l'Ontario. Rapport de recherche (The Ethno-Linguistic Identity of Students Aged 16 Years or Older Attending French-Language Secondary Schools in Ontario. Research Report).

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160

Bilingualism; Demography; Family Environment; Foreign Countries; French; French Canadians; High School Students; High Schools; Language Patterns; Language Usage; Questionnaires; Socioeconomic Status

The report, written in French, presents the results of a study on the ethno-linguistic identity of students aged 16 years or older attending French language secondary schools in Ontario. Goals of the questionnaire study included the following: (1) gathering demographics on students about to graduate from high school, regarding their gender, socio-economic status, mother tongue, second or third language, and parents' and grandparents' mother tongue; (2) determining to which degree students identify themselves as francophone and to which extent bilingualism is part of their identity, what importance they attach to language and culture, how heterogeneous or homogeneous their environment is, how they perceive their language abilities, and the quantity and quality of their contacts with French-speaking groups; and (3) determining their communities' everyday language patterns. Appended are: Donnees demographiques; Niveaux socio-economiques; Donnees principales: l'Ontario; Donnees principales: le Sud de l'Ontario; Donnees principales: l'Est de l'Ontario; Donnees principales: le Nord de l'Ontario; Tableaux de comparaison: l'identite et reseaux de contacts selon la langue maternelle et les regions; Importance des identites; Importance des identites en pourcentage selon la langue maternelle; and Appreciation des contacts avec les groupes et les institutions. (Contains 87 references.) (AS)

2003

ED474031