4.6.3 Questionnaire: Participants

The questionnaire was distributed to 130 teachers from Kindergarten to grade 12 in the province of Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada. All ten districts were represented in the study. The districts represent ten geographic regions of the province including the island portion of Newfoundland as well as the mainland portion of Labrador (see Appendix R for a map). The regions represented include schools in urban as well as rural centres, large and small schools, centrally located as well as extremely isolated schools. The inclusion of all ten districts as well as a selection of schools from within the district was based on the premise that technology integration and teacher exposure to the Internet would vary based on a large number of factors some of which would include the size of school as well as its location.

A form was sent to French Program Specialists in each of the ten boards to request participation (see Appendix S ). The Program Specialists were asked to choose teachers from as wide a range of schools as possible as opposed to choosing all the teachers from the one school. The selection included Core French and French Immersion programs and all grades from K-12. Using combinations of grades and programs (i.e. Core French K-3, Core French 4-6, etc), each Program Specialist needed to select 16 teachers. Since some districts do not offer certain programs such as French Immersion at the primary level, they were not able to provide the researcher with a name of a teacher at that level. For this reason, specialists provided 130 names as opposed to the 160 requested (10 districts X 16 names).