Resumen de ‘General language education’ and second language teaching in Canada

Norman Diffey

• Language awareness has been a part of language education in Europe for a number of years, and is now beginning to influence second language teaching programmes in Canada. An important example is provided by the General Language Education (GLE) Syllabus of the National Core French Study. The aims of GLE are to further language proficiency and tolerance of linguistic and cultural diversity, by making learners aware of the nature of language, language learning, and language as a general global phenomenon. In the classroom learners are encouraged to make their intuitive knowledge explicit and to develop their own learning strategies.