Development and Validation of the French-Canadian Chronic Pain Self-Efficacy Scale by Anaïs Lacasse, Patricia Bourgault, Yannick Tousignant-Laflamme, Roxanne Courtemanche-Harel, Manon Choinière

“…However, no validated, chronic pain-specific self-efficacy scales exist for studies conducted with French-speaking populations.…”
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Analyser les effets socialisateurs des stratégies professionnelles déployées pour enseigner l’EPS à des élèves allophones nouvellement arrivé·es en France. by Anthony Forestier, Gaëlle Sempé, Gilles Combaz

“…The article highlights three professional strategies used by teachers to teach PE allophone students in the classrooms: observation through practical and collective immersion, personalized guidance through decomposed focus and affiliation with a French-speaking student. Deployed over nine months in a high school, an ethnographic survey combining observation (n = 300 hours) and interviews (n = 31), allowed us to capture and analyse the socializing effects of these strategies on the students surveyed. …”
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Les postures d’enseignant·e·s relatives à la branche « Ethique et Cultures Religieuses » en Suisse romande sous le prisme de la neutralité by Melissa Girardet, Elisabeth Ansen Zeder, Petra Bleisch

“…In French-speaking Switzerland, the new school subject “Ethics and Religious Cultures” (ARC), introduced between 2011 et 2014, is not treated in the same way as the other school subjects by the teachers, to the point of sometimes being completely overlooked, mainly for lack of a real understanding of the aims of the subject and of what is expected of them. …”
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Gentrification, paysages et sports de nature dans le New West états-unien by Gabrielle Saumon, Frédéric Richard

“…Based on qualitative interviews and field observations which made it possible to present a cross-section of landscapes from Montana to Colorado, the article re-examines this geography of the New West with the intention of sharing it with a French-speaking readership. In concrete terms, the New West is characterised by the omnipresence of nature sports in public and private spaces and essentially in the most attractive sites. …”
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Les destins divergents des régionalismes flamands et francophones : une perspective historique by Geoffrey Pion, Gilles Van Hamme

“…The tensions between French-speaking and Dutch-speaking communities in Belgium about the regionalization of federal competences are not new and have to be understood in the long history of regionalism. …”
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Au croisement des enjeux de durabilité et des territoires : retour sur la genèse d’une revue pionnière by Bruno Villalba, Bertrand Zuindeau, Rhoda Fofack-Garcia, Leslie Carnoye

“…Thus, the journal has resolutely contributed to bringing emerging debates on sustainability into the landscape of French-speaking research in the field of environmental social sciences. …”
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« This » comme marqueur privilégié du genre : le cas des résumés de thèses by Geneviève Bordet

“…Our corpus includes abstracts from five disciplines, written in English by English and French-speaking doctoral students. This provides evidence for establishing a typology of the functions of “this” which create focalisation, and hence determine a rhetorical strategy. …”
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L2 stress discrimination by non-musicians and musicians playing wind or percussion instruments by Sandra Schwab, Orianne Pythoud

“… The present study explores the influence of music expertise on French-speaking listeners' ability to process L2 Spanish stress. …”
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L’enseignement en architecture de paysage en Afrique by Carey Duncan

“…Education models are influenced by the French system in the French-speaking countries especially in North Africa, and by the anglo-saxon system, principally from the UK and the USA, in the English speaking parts of the continent. …”
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Narrative Skills of Bilingual Children with Autism Spectrum Disorder by Huong Hoang, Ana Maria Gonzalez-Barrero, Aparna Nadig

“…We analyzed the short narratives of school-age Quebec French-speaking children: bilinguals with and without ASD, and monolinguals with and without ASD. …”
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Scolarisation des enfants de 4 et 5 ans en Suisse romande by Patricia Gilliéron Giroud, Anne Meyer, Carole Veuthey

“…Up to now, kindergarten and nursery schools in the French speaking part of Switzerland were optional and followed a globally different curriculum from primary schools. …”
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Faire faire ou faire avec ? by Christine Martin, Christine Noël Lemaitre

“…This contribution proposes a new conception of management integrating the analyses formulated by the French-speaking critical approaches developed by researchers in the human and social sciences, analyses taken up and extended by ergology. …”
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SEPARATISM IN IDEOLOGY AND ACTIVITIES OF FLEMISH RIGHT-WING POPULIST PARTIES by P. V. Oskolkov

“…A number of Flanders independence plans have been elaborated, whose authors posit that it is not Flanders that should quit the federation, but Belgium should officially disintegrate into two parts (because only in this case the French-speaking part of the country will not become the sole heir of the federation). …”
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Electronic petitions in France on the material of Change.org, a non-governmental e-petition platform by K. V. Bannikov, N. K. Radina, O. A. Smirnova, D. V. Shavarova

“…The article presents the results of an empirical study on electronic petitions posted on the Change.org French-speaking segment, geographically linked to France. …”
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Constituer des archives en sexologie francophone : un essai d’autoethnographie by Alain Giami

“…The survey revealed that the majority of French-speaking sexologists do not have any major concerns or archival culture; that a large proportion of them have already destroyed the few archives they have accumulated during their career when they retire. …”
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Increase in assisted suicide in Switzerland: did the socioeconomic predictors change? Results from the Swiss National Cohort by Marcel Zwahlen, Nicole Steck, Christoph Junker

“…Female gender, higher education, having no religious affiliation, no children and a Swiss passport, living in a neighbourhood with a higher socioeconomic index and living in the French-speaking part of Switzerland were associated with a higher rate.Conclusions The study results do not indicate any shift in socioeconomic factors associated with assisted suicide, but a more pronounced increase in incidence among the elderly.…”
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Non-drinking and social life in adolescence: a qualitative study in Switzerland by Lorraine Chok, Joan-Carles Suris, Lucie Vittoz, Diana Fernandes Palhares, Yara Barrense-Dias

“…Methods We conducted a qualitative research on non-consumption of alcohol in the French-speaking region of Switzerland. Our study included 63 young people divided into 12 focus groups aged 14 to 20 years. …”
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Les langues de la diffusion scientifique : une question pour les géographes et les géographies by Nathalie Lemarchand, Antoine Le Blanc

“…In July 2014, the CNFG (French National Committee for Geographers) organized a two-day forum to discuss the relationship between languages, social contexts of scientific production, and the overtly admitted language of scientific exchange, that is, English. It invited all French-speaking geographers, from different "national" and "linguistic" contexts, but also all geographers and geographies interested in sharing their views and experience on the diffusion and production of knowledge in the global context. …”
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Self-Reported Violence Experienced by Swiss Prehospital Emergency Care Providers by Simon Savoy, Pierre-Nicolas Carron, Nathalie Romain-Glassey, Nicolas Beysard

“…An observational cross-sectional study, carried out using an online survey, has been sent to all 416 PECPs in the Canton of Vaud, in the western, French-speaking, part of Switzerland. The survey contained items of demographic data and items to assess the type and consequence of violence sustained. …”
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Health promoting palliative care interventions in African low-income countries: a scoping review by Anne-Marie Turcotte-Tremblay, Diane Tapp, Samiratou Ouedraogo, Ariane Plaisance, Carol-Anne Hyland-Carignan, Idriss Ali Gali-Gali

“…Changes in professional education, training and culture were addressed in a few studies.Conclusion There is a need to increase the capacity of low-income African countries, especially French-speaking countries, to sustain HPPC interventions and to conduct and publish research on this topic. …”
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