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Papers published in NATCON 1998 are: (1) "A Roadmap for Career Management" (D. I. Riddle); (2) "A Sharing of Our Successes" (H. van Bommel); (3) "Assessing Clients with Learning Disabilities in Career Counselling" (J. B. Stewart); (4) "Career and Personal Planning: Diploma Program and Resources" (A. Marshall); (5) "Career Counseling in a Wired World" (G. Weber, K. Kerford)' (6) "Cognitive Structures in the Assessment Phase of Counselling" (G. Harris); (7) "Connecting Prior Learning Assessment to Career Development" (G. S. Peruniak, D. Welch); (8) "Difficultes et besoins des jeunes en matiere d'integration au marche du travail" (J.-G. Ouellette, D. Lord); (9) "Disability in the Workplace: Effective and Cost-Effective Accommodation Planning" (A. Cantor); (10) "Initatives nouvelles de formation en developpement et en counseling de carriere" (J.-G. Ouellette, D. LeBreton Forbes); (11) "Intergenerational Conflict in Career and Life Planning" (N. Arthur); (12) "Job Search Strategies for the Difficult to Place" (F. Cheek); (13) "L'employabilite en formation professionnelle au Quebec: doit-on s'en preoccuper?" (M. Tardif); (14) "Les nouvelles technologies--L'Internet, ca va?" (W.-G. Darou, M.-H. Duchaine); (15) "Les transitions professionnelles dans un contexte de precarite: recherches et solutions" (G. Fournier, C. Delmotte); (16) "L'integration au marche du travail: l'aventure des diplomes" (G. Fournier, L. Croteau); (17) "Metacognition and Vocational Counseling" (B. A. Symes); (18) "Mind at Work: Improving Workplace Satisfaction and Enjoyment" (T. Warney); (19)"Plafonnement de carriere: le cas des cadres de l'entreprise privee" (L. Lemire, C.-H. Amherdt); (20) "The Role of Diagnostic Assessment in Career Exploration" (M. Jean); (21) "Training Career Development Facilitators in Ethical Decision-Making" (V. G. Ward); (22) "Un guide au service du partenariat" (M. Gingras, D. Marceau, G. Weeks); (23) "Update on National Career Development Guidelines and Standards" (B. Hiebert, B. MacCallum, F. Ball, L. Bezanson, M. Cahill, E. Collins, M. Courchene, E. Desjardins, G. Donald, N. Galarneau, C. Tumber, V. Ward); (24) "Vie professionnelle et developpement de carriere au feminin" (A. Spain, L. Bedard, L. Paiement). (EMK)

Papers submitted to NATCON 1997 are: (1) "Athabasca University Certificate in Career Development: Innovative Collaboration" (J. Baty, B. Hiebert, G. Peruniak, D. Welch); (2) "A Multigenerational Approach to Career Counseling" (C. McCarty); (3) "Becoming Self-Directed: The Importance of Values Assessment" (C. E. Mossop); (4) "Building New Employment Relations" (K. Calvert, M. Jensen); (5) "Career-Counselling University Students with Learning Disabilities" (B. A. Symes); (6) "Career Planning with Adult Daughters of Alcoholics" (A. B. Nyiri); (7) "Conquering Interview Anxiety" (F. Cheek); (8) "Creativity as a Core Competency" (S. Murphy, T. Murphy); (9) "Ethics and Issues in Career Counselling" (J. B. Stewart); (10) "Helping People Who Hate Their Jobs" (G. Dutch); (11)"Informed-Choice Counselling: The Key to Success in Training" (L. Willis, J. Baty, J. Bain, L Harris); (12) "Kegan's Constructive Developmental Framework for Adult Careers Transition" (A. Marshall); (13) "Laid Off--Then What? Effective Strategies for Career Renewal" (R. Neault); (14) "The Workability Handbook" (D. Redekopp, C. Crickmore); (15) "Le mentorat de personnes retraitees pour l'exploration professionnelle au secondaire" (P. Dupont, M. Blain); (16) "Les pratiques d'employabilite: entre le prescrit et le reel" (C. Leclerc, B. Bourassa, M.-F. Maranda, Y. Comeau); (17) "Les Technologies de l'information dans le contexte du counselling d'emploi" (M. Turcotte); (18) "Lifelong Learning and Career Development: The Need for a Learner-Centered Approach" (M. Ogisu-Kamiya); (19)"L'implication des partenaires dans le retour en formation des adultes" (M. Tardif, G. Debeurme, F. Serre); (21) "Management and Organizational Trends: Friend or Foe?" (J. Asgar, D. Wigley); (20) "Men and Work" (H. Deutschendorf); (22) "Motivation et orientation: un but significatif" (M. Gingras, D. Chagnon); (23) "New Measures of Social Economic Value: Community-Based Training Report" (B. J. Richmond); (24) "Outreaching with the Employment Solution" (P. L. Giacomoni); (25) "Plan Your Work; Work Your Plan: A Practice Career-Management Strategy" (M. C. Thompson); (26) "Syndrome d'epuisement chez les chomeurs de longue duree et chez les autres" (G. Evequoz); (27) "LearnScape: Comprehensive Professional Development Software" (D. Redekopp, D. Mackenzie, D. Welch, B. Hiebert); (28) "Values Alignment: A Hands-On Session for Counsellors" (C. E. Mossop); (29) "Vers le developpement d'un modele de la reussite lors d'affectations a l'etranger" (E. Desjardins); (30) "Vers un modele explicatif des conflits travail-famille" (L. Lachance, B. Tetreau). (EMK)

Following a foreword (Ross Paul) and an introduction (Robert Sweet), three sections on instituting postsecondary distance learning systems across Canada are presented: access and student support, educational technology, and institutional response. The first section contains the following: "Women in Distance Education: Towards a Feminist Perspective" (Rebecca Coulter); "Building Bridges: Northern Native Teacher Training" (Robert Paulet); "Le Tuteur et le Support a l'Etudiant en Enseignement a Distance" (Celine Lebel, Bernard Michaud); and "Provision of Student Support Services in Distance Education: Do We Know What They Need?" (Gordon Thompson). Papers in the second section are as follows: "La Formation a Distance: Des Choix Technologiques et des Valeurs" (France Henri, Therese Lamy); "Third Generation Course Design in Distance Education" (David Kaufman); "Contradictory Directions for Distance: Cultural Miscegenation, or Cultural Symbiosis?" (Gary Boyd); "A Philosophy of Distance Education: Perceptivism" (Charles Brauner); "La Technologie Educative dans l'Enseignement a Distance, Son Role et Sa Place" (Louise Sauve et al.); and "Distance Learning using Communications Technologies in Canada" (Barbara Helm). The third section contains the following: "Diversity or Chaos in Canadian Distance Education? A View from Overseas" (Anthony Bates); "Canada's Open Universities: Issues and Prospectives" (Ross Paul); "Involvement with Distance Education: Issues for the University" (Margaret Haughey); "Distance Education and Accessibility to Canada's Community Colleges" (John Dennison); "Being Responsible to the Adult Distance Learner: A Secondary School Example" (Norman McKinnon); "Canadian Private Sector Distance Education: A Preliminary Analysis of Organizational Structure and Governance Issues" (Kenneth Slade, Robert Sweet); "Collaboration in Distance Education" (Abram Conrad, James Small); "Collaboration in Distance Education: British Columbia's Open Learning Agency" (Ian Mugridge); and "Collaboration in Distance Education: Ontario's Contact North/Contac Nord" (Terry Anderson, Connie Nelson). (NLA)

Papers, all in French, address four issues concerning linguistics and language in Quebec: language quality and linguistic reality; linguistic politics and the future of French in Quebec; the linguist's role in modern society; and dictionaries. Each section includes an untitled, substantive introduction and several papers. Papers include: "Discours sur la qualite de la langue et realite linguistique" ("Discourse on Language Quality and Linguistic Reality") by Gilles Bibeau; "Les rapports a la langue dans l'enseignement du francais" ("Accounts of Language in the Teaching of French") by Jean-Claude Gagnon; "La qualite de la langue: Discours et realite" ("Language Quality: Discourse and Reality") by Conrad Ouellon; "Debat linguistique et responsabilites collectives" (Linguistic Debate and Collective Responsibilities") by Henrietta Jonas-Cedergren; "La question linguistique au Quebec: Reconnaissance et pluralite" ("The Linguistic Question in Quebec: Recognition and Plurality") by J. Yvon Theriault; "Les contraintes juridiques et politiques qui s'imposent aux lois linguistiques du Quebec, province canadienne ou pays souverain" ("Legal and Political Constraints on Linguistic Laws in Quebec, Canadian Province or Sovereign Country") by Jose Woehrling; "Le role du linguiste dans la societe moderne" ("The Linguist's Role in Moderne Society") by Richard Patry; "Du confort et l'indifference a l'effort et la difference" ("From Comfort and Indifference to Effort and Difference" by Julie Laberge); "Le role du linguiste dans la societe: Une question de choix" ("The Linguist's Role in Society: A Question of Choice" by Diane Vincent); "A propos de l'arrimage entre le dictionnaire et la neobienseance" ("The Dictionary and Political Correctness") by Jean-Claude Boulanger; "Un nouveau dictionnaire et un dictionnaire nouveau" ("A 'New' Dictionary and a New Dictionary") by Pierre Martel and Helene Cajolet-Laganiere; "Lexicographie institutionnelle et valorisation du francais au Quebec" ("Institutional Lexicography and Valuation of French in Quebec") by Claude Poirier; "Le dictionnaire bilingue: concretisation de la realite quebecoise" ("The Bilingual Dictionary: Concretization of the Quebec Reality") by Roda Roberts. (MSE)

A discussion of French immersion education in Canada begins with a general examination of language immersion, including the historical context and social climate from which the immersion approach has grown in Canada, its beginnings in Quebec and spread throughout Canada, and the status of the approach in the United States, a number of European countries, Australia, and Nigeria. The second part of the overview focuses on the Canadian experience, looking at: the characteristics and structure of immersion programs; theoretical considerations; research on French language achievement in immersion programs, both early- and late-entry; the effects of immersion on English language development and subject area-knowledge; effects of immersion on children with learning problems or who are disadvantaged; social and psychological effects of immersion; problems encountered in implementation of immersion in Canada, including sociopolitical issues and resistance; and revisions, redefinitions, and changes in direction. The concluding part looks at the future of immersion in Canada. Contains 234 references. (MSE)

Papers on lexicographic research in Quebec (Canada) include: "Indications semantiques dans les dictionnaires bilingues" ("Semantic Indications in Bilingual Dictionaries) (Johanne Blais, Roda P. Roberts); "Definitions predictionnairiques de 'maison, batiment, et pavillon'" ("Pre-dictionary definitions of 'house, building, and pavillon'") (Helene D'Amours, Pierre Martel); "Ma nation, ton peuple, notre pays. Analyse lexicographique d'un corpus sociolinguistique quebecois" ("My Nation, Your People, Our Land. Lexical Analysis of a Quebec Sociolinguistic Corpus") (Nadine Vincent); "Le dictionnaire et l'ideologie dominante: le portrait des groupes marginaux" ("The Dictionary and Dominant Ideology: The Portrait of Marginal Groups") (Matthew Ball); "Traitement et evolution des termes medicaux dans un dictionnaire de langue generale" ("Treatment and Evolution of Medical Terms in a General Language Dictionary") (Isabelle Bigras, Isabelle Simard); "Quelques reflections sur le traitement de lexies semantiquement apparentees dans les dictionnaires bilingues" ("Some Reflections on the Treatment of Semantically Linked Words in Bilingual Dictionaries") (Sophie Campbell, Aline Francoeur, Rene Gemme); "Les marques d'usage et le lexique des journaux quebecois" ("Usage Markings and the Lexicon on Quebec Newspapers") (Pierre Cardinal, Jean-Pierre Jousselin); "Problematique de marquage des emprunts de sens" ("Problems in Marking Borrowed Meanings") (Ines Escayola, Marie-Claude Lavallee, Sylvie Thiboutot, Marie-France Langlois); "Etude comparative des particularites lexicales du francais et de l'anglais au Canada" ("Comparative Study of the Lexical Peculiarities of Canadian French and English") (Chantale Grenon-Nyenhuis, Catherine Ouimet); and "L'utilite des exemples dans les dictionnaires biligues francais-anglais pour les etudiants de traduction" ("The Usefulness of Examples in French-English Bilingual Dictionaries for Translation Students") (Virginia Martin-Rutledge). (MSE)