French Core Programs across Canada: How Can We Improve Them?

dress the Canadian Association of Second Language Teachers (CASLT) at this meeting and at this time. The symbolism of your theme Take a second language to heart in Manitoba, the heart of the continent has not escaped me. Here we are indeed in the heart of Canada, a geographically central spot at which one is ideally placed to look west and east and north and to get a sense of perspective. In language teaching, no less than in other branches of education, our habits of thinking tend to be provincial rather than continental. Most of us have become so imbued with the idea of education