Enseigner les sciences en français langue seconde: Exemple d’un programme d’étude au Canada.

Our contribution analyzes how the relationship between French as a second language and the traditional academic disciplines taught in a French immersion program is reflected in the curriculum of the province of British Columbia, Canada. Based on a document analysis of the official documents available on the Ministry of Education website, and more specifically by studying the Science curriculum, we identify the pedagogical choices made with regard to the integration of the language and the non-linguistic discipline. In so doing, we examine the place given in lesson plans to the development of the second language in relation to disciplinary content, noting in particular tensions that arise between linguistic and disciplinary knowledge. We shed light on the underlying representations associated with the teaching and learning of science and language and, more generally, the underlying representations between linguistic and non-linguistic disciplines.