AN EXAMINATION OF THREE FRENCH IMMERSION CENTRES

Your love, support, and encouragement throughout my life have given me both inspiration and confidence to realize many of my personal goals, including the completion of this study. iv Student attrition has always been a problem for French immersion programs, especially at the high school level. In response to a lack of current research, this study seeks to discover if the problem persists. It also examines how today’s French immersion high schools are dealing with other problem areas identified in research done in the past. These areas include, among others, students ’ learning challenges, behavioural challenges, and difficulties with the French language. The study documents the attrition rates fro