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Article: Teaching and learning in bilingual countries: the examples of Belgium and Canada.
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- Education
- Article date:
- September 22, 2002
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As a Canadian visiting Belgium I was struck by the similarity in linguistic challenges in the two countries. Like Canada, Belgium is officially a bilingual country with French as the language both countries have in common. In Canada, of course, the other language is English, whereas in Belgium it is Dutch. It seemed to this visitor that there existed the same lack of cohesion and the same stresses between the two linguistic' groups as exists in Canada. As a student of bilingual language polity in Canada and as someone interested in the teaching and learning of a second language, I wanted to investigate some of the similarities and some of the differences in language ...