Administrators should be selected from immersion teachers, and must receive training specific to being a principal and curriculum leader of an immersion school. Programs must have some mechanism for accountability in terms of funding for immersion schools. Special education needs also must be accounted for in an immersion setting. More research and development is needed to counteract immersion interlanguage and to foster natural and consistent francophone speech. Immersion programs should be defined, standardized and operated systematically throughout Canada.
Article ends with a series of recommendations for action.
A study of two programs. The Canadian Modern Language Review 49, 446-465. This article reports on a study of French immersion teacher education programs in two institutions in Western Canada. The study, conducted during the 1989-90 school year, was designed to provide an in depth examination of the two programs, focusing on the clientele for these programs, the models on which the programs are based, participants' experiences and needs, and future educational planning. Methodologies arising from naturalistic inquiry and responsive case studies were used to examine the programs in depth.