Research Projects

Our mission is to improve literacy outcomes by advancing the integration of literacy policy and practice. To this end, we work in partnership with other organizations to coordinate activities, events, projects, and programs that implement innovative literacy and learning practices. We also study and report on the outcomes of each project. You can find reports on our various projects at http://www.centreforliteracy.qc.ca/publications/projects.

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Measures of Success: Workplace Literacy and Essential Skills

A project designed to develop an evaluation model to measure the long-term outcomes of workplace literacy and essential skills initiatives in Manitoba and Nova Scotia. Read more

Understanding the Literacy and Essential Skills (LES) needs of Quebec Anglophone adults

This research project is designed to deepen knowledge and understanding of the literacy and essential skills (LES) needs of Anglophone adults living in Quebec as a basis for more effectively serving English-speaking communities across the province.

Writers in the Community

Writers in the Community, a collaboration between The Centre for Literacy and the Quebec Writers’ Federation (QWF), brings at risk adolescents into the creative mainstream.

Lire/Imagine/Read: Literacy Promotion at the Montreal Children’s Hospital

Lire/Imagine/Read, a collaborative pilot project between the Hospital and The Centre, is happening in four primary pediatric clinics. Parents and children who visit these clinics receive a book in their mother tongue.

Library Resource Trunks 2008-

The Centre assembled trunks of books selected in consultation with the user groups, which are being loaned for six-month periods to CLC libraries in Netagamiou, Mecatina, Gaspé-Percé and St. Paul’s. At the end of each loan period the trunks are located to one of the other sites, thus providing ‘fresh’ materials at regular intervals.

Free Assistive Technology for People with Learning Disabilities (2009)

Through consultation with expert providers, we identified a selection of simple assistive technology programs that are available free of charge. We have provided workshops about these tools face-to-face and through videoconferencing, facilitated by LEARN Quebec.

Connecting the Dots: Accountability and Adult Literacy (2008-2010)

Connecting the Dots: Improving Accountability in the Adult Literacy Field in Canada was a project that provided an opportunity for funders and practitioners to examine the impact of accountability on the adult literacy field across the country and explore new ways of approaching it. 

Lifelong Learning Collections (2007-2008)

In most communities, it is very hard for adults with literacy difficulties to find m

HIPPY Montréal

The Centre was involved in the creation of the Montreal HIPPY program in 2005 as well as managing it from 2009 to 2010. Parents are their children's first – and best – teachers, and the ideal time for kids to start learning is in their earliest years. HIPPY is a home-based, preschool education program that builds on the bond between parents and children.

Grassroots: Community Writing and Arts (2002-2006)

A collaboration with the Blue Metropolis Montreal International Literary Festival

Museums, Arts, and Literacy (2004-2005)

The goal of this project was to share knowledge about attracting adults into literacy-learning through museums, heritage organizations and community arts initiatives. The activities undertaken aimed to exploit recently-created infrastructure and video-conferencing capacity in Quebec’s English-language community to engage new partners

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