Fred Genesee

Fred Genesee is Professor Emeritus in the Psychology Department at McGill University, Montreal. He has conducted extensive research on alternative forms of bilingual/immersion education for language minority and language majority tudents; the academic development of at-risk students in bilingual programmes; and language acquisition in typically-developing and at-risk pre-school bilingual children and internationally-adopted children. He is the recipient of the Canadian Psychology Association Gold Medal Award, Paul Pimsler Award for Research in Foreign Language Education, Canadian Psychological Association Award for Distinguished Contributions to Community or Public Service, California Association for Bilingual Education Award for Promoting Bilingualism and the Le Prix Adrien-Pinard.