At the time of the Confederation in 1867 when Canada became a country the government made English and French the official languages, ignoring the aboriginal languages altogether, both at the federal level and in the province of Quebec. Later, when it joined the Confederation, Manitoba gave French official language status as well. But in most parts of Canada French eventually began to lose ground; Manitoba rescinded its French language policy, Ontario abolished French schools in 1912, and other provinces put restrictions on the use of French. Most immigrants learned English, especially in the western parts of Canada. More recently Canadian bilingualism has not only adopted English and French as the nation's official languages, but also allowed ethnic minorities to maintain native-language and choose English or French as second languages. The purpose of this research is to analyze dual language French- English education in the multicultural society of Canada.

• jinyeong HEO(University of Paris 3(Sorbonne Nouvelle))