Canada has two official languages-Or does it? Case studies of Canadian scholars' language choices and practices in disseminating knowledge

Journal of English for Academic Purposes

Volumn 13, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 17-30

  Gentil, Guillaume ^a   Séror, Jérémie ^b  

^a CARLETON UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OTTAWA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Academic biliteracy; Applied linguistics in Canada; Franco Ontarian academics; French as a language of science and scholarship; Multilingual scholars; Writing for publication

Indexed keywords

EID: 84894671452     PISSN: 14751585     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jeap.2013.10.005     Document Type: Article

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