Intensive French & Post-Intensive French
Intensive French
Grade 6 Option: Range Lake North School & École William McDonald Middle School
- Designed for students who have no previous, or limited, exposure to French language
- Up to 70% of programming provided in French for the first five months (Math instruction remains in English)
- Up to 23% ‘Enhanced French’ programming during the second five months when the language of instruction is English
- Project-based language acquisition
Post-Intensive French
Range Lake North School Grades 7-8, École William McDonald Middle School Grades 7-8 & École Sir John Franklin High School Grades 9-12
- Open to students who successfully complete Grade 6 Intensive French, or have one to two years experience in French Immersion in early grades
- Continue to develop French language communication skills
- Up to 230 hours of French programming per school year
Resources and Research
- Intensive French: Introduction
- Le français intensif : introduction
- Theoretical and Research Foundations of Intensive French
- L’évaluation de la production écrite en français intensif: critères et résultats
- Intensive French and Intensive English: Similarities and Differences
- Le français intensif: Vers une transdisciplinarité en langue seconde
- La diversité des régimes pédagogiques du français langue seconde au Canada
- Étude qualitative du régime pédagogique du français intensif
