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27 septembre 2017
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littérature canadienne littérature postcolonialisme Canada Canada literature Canadian literature postcolonialism LIT004080 Literature (General) DSBSujets proches
Language (New words, slang, etc.) Schoolteaching Didactics School teaching Pedagogy Instruction World literature Western literature (Western countries) Belles-lettresCiter ce document
Margaret Steffler, « Postcolonial Collisions of Language: Teaching and Using Tensions in the Text », Les Presses de l’Université d’Ottawa | University of Ottawa Press, ID : 10670/1.opg1hb
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The moment in the heartwhere I roam restless, searchingfor the thin border of the fenceto break through or leap.—Michael Ondaatje, “Last Ink” While teaching as a CUSO co-operant in Nigeria in the early 1980s, I was asked by my Form Two students to speak “Canadian.” I replied, rather erroneously I realized, that I was speaking Canadian, but they continued to press me to speak the language of my own country rather than that of England, or at least to speak the English language as I spoke it at ...