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Monique Bournot-Trites is an Associate Professor and Director of the French Language programs in the Department of Language and Literacy Education at the University of British Columbia. She teaches second language methodology in the Teacher Education program and courses in second language assessment and research methods and reading foundations at the graduate level. She has developed and supervises a French M.Ed. cohort at UBC. Recently, she has been the project lead for writing the Theoretical Language Framework for the Canadian Language Benchmarks. She created a French M.Ed. that was first taught in Face to Face, then in mixed mode (online and face to face students), and now completely online. She has done a research on social presence in the context of this M.Ed. program.
She did her Master’s Degree (1986) in School Psychology at UBC, and the title of her thesis is: “Bilingualism and Reasoning Ability”. Her Ph.D. (1998) was in Educational Psychology at UBC. The title of her Ph.D. dissertation is: “Relationships between Cognitive and Linguistic Processes and Second Language Production in French Immersion.”
She taught in French immersion in grade 1 and grade 3 and most of her research interests are in French immersion. It includes second language acquisition, learning content in a second language, grammar teaching and learning, assessment and language assessment, literacy, intercultural competence, and learning disabilities.