Abstract
The Quebec French as a Second Language (FSL) programs explicitly mention the importance of linguistic transfer to develop language competencies. In 2013, the Quebec Ministère de l’Éducation et d l’Enseignement supérieur launched a professional development project to foster student language transfer and to support collaboration between English Language Arts ( ELA) and FSL teachers. In this paper, we present the ELA-FSL Transfer project, which is the result of a didactic transposition of psycholinguistic theories and praxis inspired by research on crosslinguistic pedagogy. We will illustrate two elementary school teachers’ perceptions of their professional development based on a semi-guided interview conducted three years after the project. The teachers affirmed their continued practice of teaching for transfer between the two language subjects. A thematic analysis of the interview transcript was done using the four key elements of the project, namely (1) activating background linguistic knowledge, (2) modelling language learning strategies, (3) reflecting on language, and (4) collaboration between teaching partners.
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