Explore (education)

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Explore, Destination Clic, and Odyssey are three educational exchange programs administered by the

bilingualism in Canada
.

CMEC is a coordinating body for the various provincial education ministries. It operates these educational exchange programs with funding assistance from the federal Department of Canadian Heritage.

Bursary programs

The Summer Language Bursary Program (later Explore) was created in 1971 by the Government of Canada and funded by the

Official Languages Commissioner, Keith Spicer. This was joined by Official Language Monitor Program (now Odyssy) in 1973 and the Programme de bourses d’été pour francophones hors Québec (PBEFHQ; meaning "Summer bursary program for French-speakers outside of Quebec"; now Destination Clic) in 1977. By 1983, the Summer Language Bursary Program had a budget of $13 million per year, which the then-languages commission Max Yalden thought was a better investment than the "bilingual bonus" being paid to federal civil servants; at the time the SLBP was turning away two out of every three applicants.[1]

Explore provides

field trips, they will not only improve their language skills, but discover the culture of a new region as well, all while exploring, meeting new people from across the country, and exchanging ideas in a stimulating environment perfect for learning their second language.[2]

Destination Clic provides

bursaries for francophone youth (grades 8 and 9) to practice their French in another region of Canada.[3]

Odyssey provides a salary for Canadians to work as a language assistant working in a school. Members of the program teach their first (or stronger) language to learners from another language group. Under the supervision of a teacher, they will use games and other activities on a daily basis to motivate students to learn more about their second language. Language assistants will have the opportunity to share their culture, drawing from personal experiences.[4]

Receiving organizations

The Association québécoise des écoles de français langue étrangère

The Association québécoise des écoles de français langue étrangère ("Quebec Association of French as a Foreign Language Schools", or AQEFLE, founded in 1980

the University of Western Ontario), the École de français at Collège de Sainte-Anne-de-la-Pocatière, and the French language school at Université de Montréal.[6]

The oldest among these is the school at

Trois Pistoles which was founded in 1932, and As of 2017 hosts over 600 learners per summer (two five-week cohorts of 250 students plus other short-stay learners) into the small town of just 3,500 residents. It is considered a major economic driver in the town and federal cuts in 2010 were perceived as a threat.[citation needed
]

In popular culture

The 2011 film French Immersion is a parody of the kind of intensive french immersion course for adults funded by Explore.

See also

References

  1. ^ Hayday, 144
  2. ^ "Home". myexplore.ca.
  3. ^ "Home". destinationclic.ca.
  4. ^ "Home". myodyssey.ca.
  5. ^ "Accreditation | AQEFLE - AQEFLE". aqefle.com. Archived from the original on 2016-04-11.
  6. ^ "École de français de Trois-Pistoles - AQEFLE". aqefle.com. Archived from the original on 2016-04-12.

Hayday, Mathew. So they want us to learn French: Promoting and Opposing Bilingualism in English-Speaking Canada. UBC Press. 2015.

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