Elaine Day
Biographic Data
| ID | 4985183 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Elaine Day |
| GIVEN NAMES | Elaine |
| FAMILY NAME | Day |
| SIGNATURE | DAY E |
| AFFILIATIONS | Simon Fraser University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 9 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 27 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 9 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1942 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2016 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
‘It was like he was in the room with us’
BACKGROUND: Telemedicine can facilitate delivery of thrombolysis in acute stroke. The aim of this qualitative study was to explore patients' and carers' views of their experiences of using a stroke telemedicine system in order to contribute to the development of reliable and acceptable telemedicine systems and training for health-care staff. METHOD: We recruited patients who had, and carers who were present at, recent telemedicine consultations f…
A Multilingual Child's Literacy Practices and Contrasting Identities in the Figured Worlds of French Immersion Classrooms
In this paper, we explore the intersection of practice, identity, resources and literacy central to the New Literacy Studies and recent second language research informed by sociocultural theories of learning and language. Drawing on the construct figured worlds of literacy that describe how representations of literacy practices invoked in relation to certain people frame their social position and the construction of their identities, we discuss l…
Converging Worlds
Integrating Formal and Functional Approaches to Language Teaching in French Immersion
This experimental study was designed to evaluate the effect on French language proficiency of an integrated formal, analytic and functional, communicative approach to second-language teaching in French immersion. The impetus for the study arises from research indicating that immersion children show persistent weaknesses in their grammatical skills despite the fluent, functional proficiency they achieve in their second language. The experimental m…
Studies in Immersion Education
This book is a unique collection of research studies on French Immersion conducted from the authors' base as a research team in British Columbia, Canada. It serves as an important resource for educators and policymakers interested in the impact of immersion on educational policy, student outcomes, second language curriculum, and teacher education
Assessment of oral communicative skills in early French immersion programmes
This article presents the results of an assessment of the oral communicative skills of grade 3 early French immersion children in the province of British Columbia. The instrument developed for the study measures speaking skills through a story‐retelling and group discussion task. It was administered to 110 immersion children from 11 school districts in British Columbia and 25 Francophone children (comparison group) from Greater Montreal. The scor…
A longitudinal evaluation of an early immersion program in British Columbia
This article presents the results of a longitudinal study of two cohorts of students enrolled in an early French immersion program in the province of British Columbia since September, 1973. In an immersion program, the children's second language (French) is used as the language of instruction during the initial years of schooling. The immersion experience of the two cohorts differed in the initial grades with one cohort receiving 20% English inst…
Evaluation study of a summer immersion programme for secondary Students
A summer immersion programme for high school students wishing to study French as a second language was sponsored by the Federal Government of Canada in two different settings — a French‐speaking setting in Quebec and an English‐speaking setting in British Columbia. The programme accommodated 80 students each summer (40 per setting) and participants were randomly assigned to either the French or English setting. This study was designed to investig…
Ordinations Under the Commonwealth
Integrating Formal and Functional Approaches to Language Teaching in French Immersion
This experimental study was designed to evaluate the effect on French language proficiency of an integrated formal, analytic and functional, communicative approach to second-language teaching in French immersion. The impetus for the study arises from research indicating that immersion children show persistent weaknesses in their grammatical skills despite the fluent, functional proficiency they achieve in their second language. The experimental m…
Studies in Immersion Education
This book is a unique collection of research studies on French Immersion conducted from the authors' base as a research team in British Columbia, Canada. It serves as an important resource for educators and policymakers interested in the impact of immersion on educational policy, student outcomes, second language curriculum, and teacher education
Assessment of oral communicative skills in early French immersion programmes
This article presents the results of an assessment of the oral communicative skills of grade 3 early French immersion children in the province of British Columbia. The instrument developed for the study measures speaking skills through a story‐retelling and group discussion task. It was administered to 110 immersion children from 11 school districts in British Columbia and 25 Francophone children (comparison group) from Greater Montreal. The scor…
Evaluation study of a summer immersion programme for secondary Students
A summer immersion programme for high school students wishing to study French as a second language was sponsored by the Federal Government of Canada in two different settings — a French‐speaking setting in Quebec and an English‐speaking setting in British Columbia. The programme accommodated 80 students each summer (40 per setting) and participants were randomly assigned to either the French or English setting. This study was designed to investig…
A longitudinal evaluation of an early immersion program in British Columbia
This article presents the results of a longitudinal study of two cohorts of students enrolled in an early French immersion program in the province of British Columbia since September, 1973. In an immersion program, the children's second language (French) is used as the language of instruction during the initial years of schooling. The immersion experience of the two cohorts differed in the initial grades with one cohort receiving 20% English inst…
Ordinations Under the Commonwealth
Evaluation study of a summer immersion programme for secondary Students
A summer immersion programme for high school students wishing to study French as a second language was sponsored by the Federal Government of Canada in two different settings — a French‐speaking setting in Quebec and an English‐speaking setting in British Columbia. The programme accommodated 80 students each summer (40 per setting) and participants were randomly assigned to either the French or English setting. This study was designed to investig…
A longitudinal evaluation of an early immersion program in British Columbia
This article presents the results of a longitudinal study of two cohorts of students enrolled in an early French immersion program in the province of British Columbia since September, 1973. In an immersion program, the children's second language (French) is used as the language of instruction during the initial years of schooling. The immersion experience of the two cohorts differed in the initial grades with one cohort receiving 20% English inst…
Assessment of oral communicative skills in early French immersion programmes
This article presents the results of an assessment of the oral communicative skills of grade 3 early French immersion children in the province of British Columbia. The instrument developed for the study measures speaking skills through a story‐retelling and group discussion task. It was administered to 110 immersion children from 11 school districts in British Columbia and 25 Francophone children (comparison group) from Greater Montreal. The scor…
Studies in Immersion Education
This book is a unique collection of research studies on French Immersion conducted from the authors' base as a research team in British Columbia, Canada. It serves as an important resource for educators and policymakers interested in the impact of immersion on educational policy, student outcomes, second language curriculum, and teacher education
Integrating Formal and Functional Approaches to Language Teaching in French Immersion
This experimental study was designed to evaluate the effect on French language proficiency of an integrated formal, analytic and functional, communicative approach to second-language teaching in French immersion. The impetus for the study arises from research indicating that immersion children show persistent weaknesses in their grammatical skills despite the fluent, functional proficiency they achieve in their second language. The experimental m…
A Multilingual Child's Literacy Practices and Contrasting Identities in the Figured Worlds of French Immersion Classrooms
In this paper, we explore the intersection of practice, identity, resources and literacy central to the New Literacy Studies and recent second language research informed by sociocultural theories of learning and language. Drawing on the construct figured worlds of literacy that describe how representations of literacy practices invoked in relation to certain people frame their social position and the construction of their identities, we discuss l…
Converging Worlds
‘It was like he was in the room with us’
BACKGROUND: Telemedicine can facilitate delivery of thrombolysis in acute stroke. The aim of this qualitative study was to explore patients' and carers' views of their experiences of using a stroke telemedicine system in order to contribute to the development of reliable and acceptable telemedicine systems and training for health-care staff. METHOD: We recruited patients who had, and carers who were present at, recent telemedicine consultations f…
Psychology (8 works) · Pedagogy (6 works) · EFL/ESL Teaching and Learning (5 works) · Second Language Learning and Teaching (5 works) · Mathematics education (4 works) · Multilingual Education and Policy (4 works) · AP French Language (3 works) · French immersion (3 works) · Language assessment (3 works) · Linguistics (3 works)