A Foreign Language(1958)

Name: A Foreign Language
Director: Stanley Jackson
Genre: Documentary
Released: 1958-01-01
Duration: 30 min

This film observes, in a Montréal public school, the teaching of English to immigrant children. To thousands of children arriving in Canada from Greece, Italy, France, Germany or Japan, English is "a foreign language." Under able coaching they begin to understand and even enjoy the vagaries of the English language.