English in Francophone Elementary Grades in Cameroon  

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Kouega, Jean-Paul

Jenis: Article from Journal - ilmiah internasional
Dalam koleksi: Language and Education (Full Text) vol. 17 no. 6 (2003), page 408-420.
Fulltext: Vol. 17, No. 6, p 408-420.pdf (221.28KB)

Isi artikel

Since Reunification of French Cameroon and British Cameroons in 1961, the country has adopted French and English as its joint official languages and recommended the promotion of bilingualism in these two foreign languages in official domains. This paper focuses on the primary school level in the francophone sub systemof education and examines the various measures that successive governments have taken. The first two measures failed to bear fruit, for various reasons including insufficient teachers and lackof teachingmaterials.The most recentmeasure still to be implementedmakes the teaching of the second official language a compulsory subject in all primary school classes and a subject in both the First School Leaving Certificate and the Certificat d’Etudes Primaires (CEP), its French equivalent. This decision seems to have been taken hastily, as the problems of staff andmaterials are still not resolved. The position of the present researcher is that, as the Government is at present better prepared to provide teaching in one or other of the two official languages, it should make some French-medium and some English-medium schools available in as many localities as possible, and give parents the choice of which system they want for their children

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