World English

For my World English project, I am going to focus on Canada and how American and Canadian English coincide. I wanted to focus on Canada, because the country is so close to ours but they have just a different influence on their speech and culture. French-Canadian is spoken more on the east side of the country, whereas on the west side of the country the influence of French is not as strong. I want to answer some questions in my presentation: How/when did French infuse Canada? OR When did Canada change over to Canadian-English instead of French-Canadian? Has Canada always spoke English or was there a time in their history that they only spoke French? How does this relate back to students and their learning of language? (Or in my case since I am not necessarily going to teach and I want to do more editing/writing) how does the culture/speech of Canada influence how we speak today? Does it have any impact? These are a couple questions that I want to focus on. I have found a couple academic sources about the history of Canadian-English/French-Canadian, and I have also found some non-academic sources about the differences in American English and Canadian English. I want to make a prezi or PowerPoint of some sort. I always feel like prezi’s aren’t as boring, but I want to make sure that I add some sort of graphics to my presentation also. 

Here are the sources that I have right now (I will probably find more as I go along):

http://www.jstor.org/stable/3050502?seq=2

http://www.yorku.ca/twainweb/troberts/raising.html

http://public.oed.com/aspects-of-english/english-in-use/canadian-english/

http://ntserver1.wsulibs.wsu.edu:2056/stable/3444544

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