Official Language Minority Education Rights in Canada: From Instruction to Management / Les droits scolaires des minorités de langue officielle au Canada: de l'instruction à la gestion

1991 ◽  
Vol 16 (4) ◽  
pp. 472
Author(s):  
Claudette Tardif ◽  
Angéline Martel ◽  
Angeline Martel
Keyword(s):  
Language Minority ◽  
Minority Education ◽  
Official Language ◽  
Official Language Minority ◽  
Language Minority Education ◽  
Minorités De Langue Officielle

scholarly journals Potential and Limitations of Horizontal Management

2012 ◽  
pp. 214-228 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rémi Léger
Keyword(s):  
Language Minority ◽  
Official Language ◽  
Linguistic Minorities ◽  
Minority Communities ◽  
Minority Community ◽  
Community Institutions ◽  
Canadian Institute ◽  
Official Language Minority ◽  
Francophone Minority ◽  
Main Ideas

On 11 June 2010, ten leading scholars came together at the invitation of the Canadian Institute for Research on Linguistic Minorities to discuss the autonomy and recognition of Canada’s official language minority communities. In this article, I examine the implications of this workshop for Francophone minority community institutions by emphasizing and contextualizing main ideas and expanding on key proposals. First, I map out and explain how the implementation of horizontal management has increasingly curtailed community autonomy. Next, I catalog and discuss participants’ proposals for fostering greater autonomy for Francophone minority communities. Last, I sketch the potential and limitations of horizontal management.

scholarly journals Can Machine Translation meet the needs of official language minority communities in Canada? A recipient evaluation

2021 ◽  
Vol 8 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lynne Bowker
Keyword(s):  
Machine Translation ◽  
Effective Means ◽  
Cost Effective ◽  
Language Minority ◽  
Official Language ◽  
Minority Communities ◽  
Municipal Governments ◽  
Minimum Requirement ◽  
Official Language Minority ◽  
Translation Services

Canada is an officially bilingual country, but the only legal requirement is for federal services to be offered in both official languages. Therefore, services provided by provincial and municipal governments are typically offered only in the language of the majority, with cost being cited as the main obstacle to providing translation. This paper presents a recipient evaluation designed to determine whether machine translation could be used as a cost-effective means of increasing translation services in Canadian official language minority communities. The results show that not all communities have the same needs, and that raw or rapidly post-edited MT output is more suitable for information assimilation, while maximally post-edited MT output is a minimum requirement when translation is intended as a means of cultural preservation and promotion. The survey also suggests that average recipients are more receptive to MT than are language professionals.

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