New Brunswick: "numbers of students dropping Core French at the secondary level are astronomical"

In QUALITY LEARNING IN FRENCH SECOND LANGUAGE IN NEW BRUNSWICK, Sally Rehorick, D.A., C.A.S., Director and Professor, Joseph Dicks, Ph.D, Professor, Paula Kristmanson, Ph.D, Assistant Professor, Fiona Cogswell, M.Ed, Faculty Associate, April 2006:

2. Core French programmes as they currently

exist are not effective in reaching the target

proficiency goal.

3. Although these statistics do not specifically

address attrition rates, we know that there is still a

problem with attrition in French Immersion at the

secondary level, a fact mirrored at the national

level (Rehorick, 2004).

4. The numbers of students dropping Core French

at the secondary level are astronomical.*

* This high attrition can be attributed to students’ perception of lack of success and courses which are “boring, irrelevant and repetitious” (APEF, 2003).