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A Foreign Language
195829 min 10 secFilm: Documentary
Direction: Stanley Jackson
Production: Roman KroitorWolf KoenigTom Daly
This film observes, in a Montréal public school, the teaching of English to immigrant children. To thousands of children arriving in Canada from Greece, Italy, France, Germany or Japan, English is "a foreign language." Under able coaching they begin to understand and even enjoy the vagaries of the English language.
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Subject categories
- Education > Bilingual and Multicultural EducationChild Education
- Cultural Diversity and Multiculturalism > BilingualismChildrenImmigration Experience and Social AdjustmentQuébec
- Literature and Language - Canada > English as a Second Language
Credits
- director
- Stanley Jackson
- producer
- Roman Kroitor
- Wolf Koenig
- executive producer
- Tom Daly
- photography
- Reginald Morris
- sound
- Frank Orban
- Ron Alexander