Mois : septembre 2022

ننهي هذا المقال القصير بتذكيرنا بمصير بعض اللغات المأساوي. لمعرفة المزيد عن هذا الموضوع ، إليكم رابط اليونسكو :

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Language learning and teaching are a matter of the greatest importance ever.

We only become aware of the impact that language learning can have on our life later, at one of the stages of our life. However, the context and the background still need to be favourable. For example, how can Palestinian children learn given that bullets are fired in all directions by soldiers who have lost their minds and carry out orders from people even crazier than them? What about the education of children in other countries that suffer from the scourge of war, ethnic discrimination and persecution?

For children from any social background and any country to learn languages efficiently and get the required skills there is a need for a safe and secure environment and pupils must be safe and sound which means stop making weapons and exporting them and, instead, making books and provinding children with them and ending immediately any war. However does one think politicians and milataries will listen to reason?
The answer that restores hope will be the most heartening news ever.
We wish they could get rid of those maniacal killers and learn in a peacful background like lucky children in most parts of the world do.

Here some of the outcomes of many articles that have dealt with languages in some African countries.
There is a need for a drill in learning English and also for an improvement in teaching methods especially in sub-saharan countries and in South Africa.
Regarding sub-saharan countries (Visit UNESCO), what has been underlined is that there is a shortage in education materials like manuals, textbooks and other like public services such as sanitation and drinking water. There is also a shortage in teachers (teachers who are very worn) and there is a growing demand for education because of the growing population and school attending. These issues sould be dealt with as soon as possible.
Besides, African students have participated to international assessment (see PIRLS) and they had poor performance and their scores are far below the international standards.
There’s an urgent need to provide effective English and mother-tongue based Early Grade Reading (EGR) teaching and learning to its pupils.

Website
Summary

1. The average class size in some sub-Saharian countries in 2010 …Large classes
2. Primary-level class size are too large
3. Large numbers of pupils taught in multi-grades classes : not easy to deal with
4. Where single-grade classes are located
5. Too large classes (critical size) have a negative on children ‘ learning (outcomes)
6. Because of growth of age school population
7. Availability of educational material: limited
8. Access to basic public services : limited
9. Teaching workforce : not growing fastly
10. Teacher attrition : increasing
11. Teacher-training programme
12. Pupils performance : low
13. Female primary teachers: rare
14. Overall programme design and policy development should be improved

Here is what the UNESCO website tells us about languages and mother tongue.
« International Mother Language Day recognizes that languages and multilingualism can advance inclusion, and the Sustainable Development Goals’ focus on leaving no one behind. UNESCO believes education, based on the first language or mother tongue, must begin from the early years as early childhood care and education is the foundation of learning. »

UNESCO

We end this short article by reminding the fate of some languages. To know more about this topic, here’s the link to the UNESCO.

UNESCO