Ustymenko V. Language Teaching in Canadian Education System in Terms of Multilingualism

The present dissertation highlights theoretical and organizational grounds of language teaching in Canadian education system in the context of globalization processes and multilingual society. The research gives a thorough retrospective analysis of formation and development of language education system in Canada from the period of the first organized learning till the beginning of the 21 st century; the issues of Canada’s policy and regulation in the sphere of teaching languages are examined. The dissertation gives not only the analysis of socio-political context in development of multilingualism in Canada, but also determines some stages in formation and development of multilingual society; the research provides a systemic analysis of organization teaching in native language, second language and foreign language at all stages of language education in Canada.