While there is reason to believe that Lambert's 1960 results would not now be found in Montreal, because of social changes affecting French-English relations (Bourhis and Genesee, 1980), the fact remains that low-prestige groups c~ and do adopt views of the dominant society (see Milner, 1981, for a critical appraisal of this); that these views are not static only serves to point out how useful language evaluation studies can be in assessing the tenor of intergroup relations (Giles and Marsh, 1979; Giles and Powesland, 1975).