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Posted: May 23, 2021 5:16 PM ET | Last Updated: May 23
With the COVID-19 pandemic moving classes online, some French immersion teachers say it s been a challenge making sure their students aren t speaking English.(Evan Mitsui/CBC)
Trying to get French immersion students to speak French in school was often challenging before the COVID-19 pandemic, but some teachers are concerned that with everyone now online, the problem has only gotten worse. I m not hearing that the kids are always speaking French, said Kim Doucet, who s currently teaching Grade 2 French immersion with the Ottawa-Carleton Virtual School.
Doucet, a French immersion teacher for the better part of 25 years, said with the proliferation of Google Translate, virtual meetings and online breakout rooms, it s becoming more and more difficult for educators to enforce language rules during class time.