An increasing number of studies have explored the effects of collaborative writing on written outcomes; however, few studies have examined the influence of collaborative processing of feedback. This study addresses this gap by focusing on learner engagement. While collaborative writing involves co-authoring a text, which requires negotiation and idea sharing, collaborative processing of feedback focuses on jointly interpreting and responding to feedback. Utilizing a mixed-methods design, this study examined 24 learners of French as a Foreign Language (FFL) over an 8-week period. It compared their engagement with written corrective feedback (WCF) when processed individually versus in pairs. The findings provide insights into how different feedback processing modes influence learner engagement and highlight the potential benefits of collaborative feedback processing. The instructor provided indirect WCF, and learners revised their essays with think-aloud sessions. The study examined cognitive and behavioral engagement through writing analysis and used think-aloud reports examining affective engagement. Results indicated that learners’ cognitive engagement varied between individual and collaborative processing, with individuals employing fewer high-depth and low-depth processing strategies. However, affective engagement was found to be independent of task completion mode, and behavioral engagement did not differ between individual and collaborative processing of WCF.

Epilogue: The interplay of agency and instruction in written corrective feedback: Reflections and future directions. Un article de la revue Canadian Journal of Applied Linguistics / Revue canadienne de linguistique appliquée (Special Issue: Written corrective feedback in L1 and L2 in higher education: An international perspective) diffusée par la plateforme Érudit.

In Canada, French as a second language (FSL) teachers have indicated a lack of professional learning opportunities adapted to their needs and interests. In order to support their ongoing development, more research is needed to study professional learning models that address their unique set of knowledge and skills, such as language proficiency, intercultural awareness, pedagogy, and collaborative professionalism (Masson et al., 2024). To respond to this need, this study implemented a four-month professional development series for FSL teachers in an Ontario school board based on a community of practice (CoP) framework. Data was collected through pre-/post-questionnaires and participant interviews and analyzed through Wenger et al.’s (2011) cycles of value creation. The results show that while the CoP initiative created immediate and potential value for participants, it did not necessarily lead to an applied value, or reported changes to the FSL teachers’ practice.

This study aims to identify factors contributing to linguistic insecurity and provides suggestions to support teachers in fostering linguistic security in their classrooms. The findings are based on data from interviews with 21 high school teachers from across the province of British Columbia (Canada) and a focus group with eight members of the Linguistic Security Committee. A thematic analysis of the data led to the identification of five sets of teacher beliefs associated with challenges about the fostering of linguistic security in their classrooms. For each of these challenges, the Linguistic Security Committee made recommendations, and these may prove helpful to teachers in French-speaking minority contexts across Canada. Three main conclusions are drawn from this study: attention to teacher beliefs should be a focus of educational research, teacher preparation grounded in a sociolinguistic understanding of linguistic variation is necessary, and linguistic security should be a priority.

The Atlas of Kanyen’kehá:ka Space project (Kanyen’kehá:ka Nation, 2020; see www.mohawkatlas.org) launched in 2019 for the purposes of preserving Kanyen’kéha (Mohawk language) place names and related landscape terminology. Built using Nunaliit, a community mapping framework developed by Carleton University’s Geomatics and Cartographic Research Centre (GCRC), the Atlas is capable of pinning points onto a map and attaching media such as pronunciations, photos, videos and documents to that point. With funding for the Atlas through the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council, the Atlas Research Team held workshops in Kanyen’kehá:ka communities to document their space with over 198 places and approximately 188 media files added from within the communities. However, we knew there was also potential to use the Atlas for language revitalization activities. With funding from the National Indian Brotherhood, we created a language learning curriculum integrating the Atlas and drone technology with land-based activities which was used during Land Back Summer Camp, held at the Native North American Travelling College in Akwesasne in July 2022. This paper discusses the components of the curriculum centred around the Atlas as task-based language learning. Because of the wide range of ages and language proficiency, the curriculum is a combination of different methods and strategies that are designed to reinforce each other. These included teaching the campers how to fly drones and integrate the footage into the Atlas of Kanyen’kehá:ka Space working with four L1 Kanyen’kéha speakers to describe the footage. The camp also included land-based activities as well as games and activities in Kanyen’kéha.

This longitudinal, mixed-methods study reports on the development and implementation of an early phonological awareness screening and intervention program for struggling emergent readers in a French immersion school in Manitoba. The program was created by a professional learning community made up of the school administrator, teachers, and clinical support staff. This paper describes the process of developing the phonological awareness program and the intervention itself. Forty-two children participated in the phonological awareness intervention that lasted 10 weeks. The intervention was given in English in kindergarten. Significant gains were found in the phonological awareness skills of the children who participated in the intervention. Results also indicated that children’s phonological awareness skills in English predicted their French reading levels in Grade 1. In addition, we provide insight into the roles played by key members of the school’s PLC through qualitative analysis of a series of semi-structured interviews. The work of the school’s professional learning community offers a model that may be implemented by other school teams to promote equity and accessibility for all learners in FI programs.

Avec le récent essor de l’enseignement à distance, les tâches d’écriture collaborative (ÉC), dont la contribution au développement des compétences en écriture en langue seconde (L2) a été démontrée (Elabdali, 2021), se déroulent de plus en plus en ligne. Un tel format permet à l’enseignant de fournir une rétroaction corrective écrite synchrone (RCÉS) aux apprenants, qui collaborent ensuite en temps réel sur la résolution des erreurs. Peu d’études se sont toutefois intéressées aux perceptions des enseignants dans le cadre d’un cours de français L2 en ligne. Cette étude de cas explore ainsi les perceptions d’enseignants de français L2 (N = 3) quant à la mise en place, dans leur cours de français écrit de niveau avancé, de deux tâches d’ÉC en ligne (Google Docs), lors desquelles ils fournissaient de la RCÉS à leurs apprenants (N = 46), qui collaboraient par vidéoconférence en petits groupes (Zoom). Après la réalisation des tâches, les enseignants ont partagé leurs points de vue quant aux forces et aux limites d’une telle pratique pédagogique lors d’une entrevue de groupe semi-dirigée tenue en vidéoconférence. L’analyse de contenu de la transcription de l’entrevue indique que, bien que les enseignants aient des perceptions globalement positives de cette pratique et y voient un potentiel pour l’enseignement-apprentissage du français L2, certaines préoccupations concernant l’aspect pratique et la mise en œuvre des tâches d’ÉC en ligne avec de la RCÉS ont émergé. Les implications pédagogiques quant à la manière de fournir de la RCÉS pendant de telles tâches sont discutées.

Language separation policies in two-way bilingual education (TWBE) reflect ideologies of double monolingualism (Heller, 1995) and ignore the sociolinguistic realities of bi/multilingual students (García & Lin, 2017). This case study investigates the design and implementation of collaborative multilingual identity text projects (Prasad, 2018) in a Spanish-English two-way immersion (TWI) school. Identity text pedagogies (Cummins & Early, 2011) that engage bilingual students in creating dual-language multimodal texts have been taken up across a wide variety of contexts. Few studies in the United States, however, have examined how TWI teachers can use multiliteracies pedagogy (New London Group, 1996) with a critical multilingual language awareness (CMLA) focus to move beyond the frame of Spanish-English through the creation of collaborative multilingual and multimodal class books. A thematic analysis of classroom data from our case study demonstrates that implementing critical multilingual multiliteracies projects fostered students’ CMLA while building positive bi/multilingual identities, leveraged students’ linguistic repertoires beyond the language of instruction, and encouraged linguistic risk-taking. This empirical study highlights the possibilities for adopting a collaborative, critical, and creative multilingual multiliteracies approach in TWI settings.

L’apprentissage de l’orthographe grammaticale (OG) française pose de grands défis aux élèves, tant en langue première qu’en langue seconde (Lefrançois et al., 2008). Dans ce contexte, notre étude s’intéresse à l’expérimentation d’un « dispositif plurilingue » d’enseignement de l’OG française auprès d’élèves bi/plurilingues de première secondaire au Québec. Mettant en œuvre une pédagogie du translanguaging (Cenoz et Gorter, 2020; Garcia et al., 2017) et comportant des activités d’éveil aux langues (Auger, 2014), ce dispositif inclut également des dictées métacognitives (Nadeau et Fisher, 2014) et une approche intégrée (Allal, 2018). Des prétests et des posttests (dictées et productions écrites) ont permis d’évaluer les effets du dispositif pour certains objets spécifiquement (accord du verbe, de l’adjectif et du participe passé avec être [PPE], terminaisons verbales en /E/), en comparaison avec un dispositif monolingue et des pratiques habituelles d’enseignement. Il est notamment constaté qu’une force particulière du dispositif plurilingue est d’ancrer les apprentissages dans la durée pour l’accord de l’adjectif et du PPE.