Understand: The Change Starts with Us
Understand Video
We asked for this, and it happened!
Across Québec, teachers called for a curriculum that reflects how languages are actually learned and used. The Ministère de l’enseignement supérieur listened. The result is not a minor update – it’s a real shift in how we understand language teaching and learning:
- A shift toward what students can do
- A shift toward authentic tasks and meaningful communication
- A shift toward growth, not just performance
This page is designed to help you understand that shift clearly, confidently, and at your own pace. But before diving into the details, it helps to understand how everything fits together. The following guide explains the three key curricular layers in CEGEP ESL:
In other words, the system is designed to ensure both:
- consistency across Québec
- flexibility within your classroom
This balance is at the heart of the reform.
In this section
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The Official Foundation: Ministerial Documents
The Ministère de l’Enseignement supérieur has released four resources to provide the official foundation of the reform.
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What’s New in the New Devis?
A guide to the major conceptual shifts in the new devis, including communication, process, progression, learner agency, and CEFR alignment.
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Teaching and Learning New Competencies: A Deep Dive into the Three Specific Objectives
A deep dive into the three specific objectives at the heart of the new devis: oral interaction, writing, and reinvestment.
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Success Indicators to Be Applied to the Overall Objective: The Threads Running Through Everything
An explanation of autonomy, strategy use, progression, grammar in context, and openness as threads running through the new devis.
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