{"title":"Evaluating the impact of Bill 101 on the English-speaking communities of Quebec","authors":"R. Bourhis","doi":"10.1075/LPLP.00042.BOU","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"\n Though forty years of language policies much improved the status and use of French in Quebec, laws such as Bill\n 101 played a role in reducing the demographic and institutional vitality of the English-speaking communities of Quebec (ESCQ).\n Pro-French laws maintained Francophones at close to 80% of the Quebec population and ensured that 95% of the Quebec population\n acquired knowledge of French. Language laws contributed to the decline of Anglophone mother tongue speakers from 13% of the\n population in 1971 to 7.5% in 2016, while increasing to 70% French/English bilingualism amongst Anglophones. With a net\n interprovincial loss of over 310,000 Anglophones who left Quebec for the rest of Canada (ROC), results show that Anglophones who\n stayed in Quebec are less educated and earn lower income than Quebec Francophones. Language laws limiting access to English\n schools succeeded in reducing the size of the English school system from 256, 251 pupils in 1971 (100%) to only 96,235 pupils in\n 2018 (37%). While the Anglophone minority bemoan their demographic and institutional decline in education, health care, and\n government services, many Francophones remains concerned about threats to French by bilingualism in Montreal and their minority\n status in Canada and North America.","PeriodicalId":44345,"journal":{"name":"Language Problems & Language Planning","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.4000,"publicationDate":"2019-07-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"9","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Language Problems & Language Planning","FirstCategoryId":"98","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.1075/LPLP.00042.BOU","RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"0","JCRName":"LANGUAGE & LINGUISTICS","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Abstract
Though forty years of language policies much improved the status and use of French in Quebec, laws such as Bill
101 played a role in reducing the demographic and institutional vitality of the English-speaking communities of Quebec (ESCQ).
Pro-French laws maintained Francophones at close to 80% of the Quebec population and ensured that 95% of the Quebec population
acquired knowledge of French. Language laws contributed to the decline of Anglophone mother tongue speakers from 13% of the
population in 1971 to 7.5% in 2016, while increasing to 70% French/English bilingualism amongst Anglophones. With a net
interprovincial loss of over 310,000 Anglophones who left Quebec for the rest of Canada (ROC), results show that Anglophones who
stayed in Quebec are less educated and earn lower income than Quebec Francophones. Language laws limiting access to English
schools succeeded in reducing the size of the English school system from 256, 251 pupils in 1971 (100%) to only 96,235 pupils in
2018 (37%). While the Anglophone minority bemoan their demographic and institutional decline in education, health care, and
government services, many Francophones remains concerned about threats to French by bilingualism in Montreal and their minority
status in Canada and North America.
期刊介绍:
Language Problems and Language Planning is published in cooperation with the Center for Research and Documentation on World Language Problems. This international multi-lingual journal publishes articles primarily on political, sociological, and economic aspects of language and language use. It is especially concerned with relationships between and among language communities, particularly in international contexts, and in the adaptation, manipulation, and standardization of language for international use.