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Montreal Gazette - Immersion needs a political push: expert

Published: 12 March 2011

For Fred Genesee, there's a familiar ring to the apprehension over the Quebec government's plans to boost English immersion in Grade 6 in French schools.

"All the concerns that the English-speaking community had about immersion 40 years ago are re-surfacing," said Genesee, a McGill University psychology professor whose research includes evaluating immersion programs in Canada.

"The big one is that it will jeopardize their French language development in the same way we thought that immersion would jeopardize kids' English-language development," Genesee said.

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