Associate Professor
Department of Language and Literacy Education (LLED)
Her research focuses on L2 teaching and learning, L2 literacy and language assessment. Dr. Bournot-Trites researched reading development and the quality of French in immersion. She has also studied how French teachers study abroad influences their intercultural and language competence. At UBC, she researched tandem language learning. Recently, she wrote the Theoretical Language Framework for the Canadian Language Benchmarks. Furthermore, she studies online teaching and learning at the graduate level.
Contributions:
Bournot-Trites, M; Barbour, R.; Jezak, M.; Stewart, G.; Blouin Carbonneau, D; (2013). Theoretical Framework for the Canadian Language Benchmarks and Niveaux de compétence linguistique canadiens (French and English version). Centre for the Canadian Language Benchmarks: Ottawa. (Project lead) http://www.language.ca/documents/theoretical_framework_web.pdf
Bournot-Trites, M. (2008). Fostering of Reading Acquisition in French Immersion. Encyclopedia of Language and Literacy Development (pp. 1-8). London, ON: Canadian Language and Literacy Research Network. Retrieved April 1, 2008 from http://literacyencyclopedia.ca/index.php?fa=items.show&topicId=240
Bournot-Trites M. (2007). Qualité de l’écrit au niveau intermédiaire en immersion française : effet d’un programme intensif et hypothèse d’un effet de plateau. Canadian Journal of Applied Linguistics, 10(1) 7-23. http://www.aclacaal.org/Revue/vol-10-no1-art-bournot-trites.pdf
Bournot-Trites, M., & Denizot, I. (2005). Relations entre la conscience phonologique en français et en anglais et la lecture de mots et la compréhension en lecture en immersion française. Parole, 34,35,36, 45-69.
Bournot-Trites, M., & Reeder, K. (2001). Interdependence revisited: Mathematics achievement in an intensified French immersion programme. The Canadian Modern Language Review, 58 (1), 27-43.
Keywords:
Second language teaching and learning; French as a second language; French immersion; Second language assessment; Canadian Language Benchmarks; Common European Framework of Reference; Study Abroad; Tandem language learning; Literacy in second language; Online teaching and learning.
monique.bournot-trites@ubc.ca
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