Sharon Lapkin

Biography

Dr. Sharon Lapkin retired in 2007 from the OISE Department of Curriculum, Teaching and Learning and the Centre for Research on Languages and Literacies (formerly the Modern Language Centre).

Her research centred on French second language education in studies including large-scale evaluations of French immersion and other intensive formats of FSL programs, qualitative studies of language learning in progress, and meta-analyses of published empirical research on FSL.

She served for close to ten years as co-editor of the Canadian Modern Language Review and as a Director of the Canadian Association for Second Language Teachers for six years. In 2006 the latter Association awarded her the Prix Robert Roy in recognition of her outstanding contribution to second language teaching in Canada. She recently completed a six-year term as Director for Canadian Parents for French, National.