Joël Thibeault is professor of French education at the University of Ottawa and adjunct professor at the University of Regina. His research focuses on the teaching and learning of French grammar within francophone minority settings, the use of children’s literature in the teaching of linguistic conventions, and the integrated teaching of French and English at school. In this regard, he received a grant from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council to conduct a study on the integrated teaching of French and English grammar.
Joël Thibeault

Books
Thibeault, J. & Fleuret, C. (2020). Didactique du français en contextes minoritaires. Entre normes scolaires et plurilinguismes
Journals & other
Forget, M.-H. & Thibeault, J. (2022), Regard sur la mise en oeuvre effective d'un dispositif de médiation sociocognitive pour enseigner la recommandation d'une oeuvre narrative à l'écrit au primaire 3e cycle, Didactique, 3 (2), 71-102.
Thibeault, J. & Maynard, C. (2022), Quand plusieurs normes linguistiques s'invitent dans le cours de grammaire, La Lettre de l'Association internationale pour la recherche en didactique du français (AIRDF), 70, 30-34.
Thibeault, J. & Matheson, I. A. (2021),How do elementary students perceive the utility of dual-language children’s books? An exploratory study in French immersion, Language and Literacy, 23(1), 49–63.
Full list of publications and other scholarly contributions.
Research interests
- French education
- Francophone minority contexts
- Grammar instruction