Joan Netten received a Ph.D from the Université du Québec à Montréal
(2001). She is an Honorary Research Professor, Faculty of Education, at
Memorial University of Newfoundland. She was Coordinator of the French
Education program at Memorial University, and, during this time received
a major grant from the Department of Canadian Heritage to improve French
teacher education and, with W. H. Spain, a grant from SSHRC to investigate
classroom interactions in French immersion. She was seconded to the provincial
Department of Education where she implemented French First Language education.
She is currently Director of the Intensive French Project, and, with Claude
Germain, a recipient of two major grants, co-editor of a special issue
of the Canadian Modern Language Review, and was invited to address a Parliamentary
Committee on language education in Wales. She has been Vice-President of
the Canadian Association of Applied Linguistics, National President of
Canadian Parents for French, and is Vice-President of the Editorial Board
of the Canadian Modern Language Review. She received the Order of Canada
for her contribution to research and development of French education.
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Claude Germain received a Ph.D. in Philosophy from the University
of Ottawa (1989) and a Ph.D. in Linguistics from the University of Aix-Marseille
(1970). He is currently Full professor in the Department of Linguistics
and Second Language Teaching at UQAM ( University of Quebec at Montreal
), and is an internationally acknowledged authority on the teaching and
learning of second languages. He is well-known for his research and numerous
publications in second language teaching, such as Évolution de
l'enseignement des langues: 5000 ans d'histoire (1993, Paris : CLE International),
Le point sur l'approche communicative (1993, Montréal: Centre Éducatif
et Culturel) and Le point sur la grammaire (in cooperation with H. Séguin,
1995, Paris: CLE International). He has presented research findings in
many countries, and is currently involved in a project in Africa about
French as a second language. With Dr. Joan Netten, he received two major
grants from the Language Acquisition Research Branch, Canadian Heritage,
for Intensive French and co-edited a Special Issue of the Canadian Modern
Language Review on “Intensive French in Canada” (February
2004).
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