Francophone communities in a minority setting notably face growing exogamy rates, decreasing rates of transmission of the French mother tongue to the next generation and the increasing predominance of the English language in many areas of daily life (social networks, the workplace, financial and commercial institutions, media and advertising, etc.). [...] The adoption of the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms in 1982 and the Supreme Court of Canada’s rulings on the interpretation of Article 23 (Mahé, 1990; Manitoba Reference of 1993; Arsenault-Cameron, 2000; Doucet-Boudreau, 2003) helped make French-language minority education accessible to the majority of eligible children from kindergarten through high school in all Canadian provinces and te [...] At stake here is nothing less than the capacity of francophone communities outside Quebec to flourish and the full realization of the goals of the Official Languages Act (OLA), in which the federal government has committed itself to “enhancing the vitality of the English and French linguistic minority communities in Canada and supporting and assisting their development; and fostering the full reco [...] Allard (2005) recently reviewed the literature on the educational aspirations of students in a francophone minority setting, the factors related to these aspirations and students’ intentions to pursue post-secondary studies, and the factors related to their intentions to pursue such studies in French. [...] The second objective—students’ intentions to pursue post-secondary studies in French and analysis of factors which may be related to such intentions—is only dealt with briefly, as it will be the focus of a second publication in which we analyze in greater detail the importance of the francophone sociolinguistic context on intentions to pursue a post-secondary education in French.
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