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Rwanda: Language Centres Set Up All Over the Country

david — Sun, 14 Dec 2008 17:15:44 +0000

Rwanda: Following the move by the government making English the language of instruction in all schools, centres have been established across the country that will facilitate students and teachers learn the language. According to Fred Bahati, the Director of the East African Language Learning Centres, establishing the centres has quickened the process of integrating English into the society.

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Rwanda: WDA Begins English Lessons for Vocational Instructors

david — Fri, 12 Dec 2008 16:56:51 +0000

Rwanda: AllAfrica.com notes that forty-four vocational instructors from four districts are currently undergoing a training course in English for vocational instruction at the Rwanda Workforce Development Authority (WDA) headquarters in Remera, Kigali.

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English Language Teaching Kicks Off in Rwanda

david — Wed, 03 Dec 2008 06:38:20 +0000

Rwanda: The recent government decision to use English as the language of instruction has kicked off in some schools, with teachers enrolling for the language alongside their students, reports AllAfrica.com. Among the schools that have started implementing English language is St Patrick primary school in Kicukiro district.

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Rwanda: Government to Partner Private Sector in Implementing English Training Programme

david — Fri, 14 Nov 2008 08:36:34 +0000

In accordance with a cabinet policy announcement last October, affirming that all public servants learn English, the government and the private sector are set to join hands at ensuring its success. A document obtained from the Ministry of Public Service and Labour states: ” government will work closely with concerned institutions to develop English training within the private sector and civil society.”

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Rwandans Say ‘Adieu’ to le Français

david — Sat, 01 Nov 2008 16:29:27 +0000

In yet another killer blow to the language of love, the Rwandan government has decided to change instruction in schools from French to English. All government employees are now required to learn English, and everyone here from lawmakers to taxi drivers to students to businesspeople seems to believe that the usefulness of French, introduced by Belgian colonizers, is coming to an end.

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The unstoppable rise of the English language

david — Tue, 28 Oct 2008 08:28:03 +0000

At present, more than half of Africa’s 52 countries speak French, but the number is dropping. This month Rwanda defected, announcing that henceforward only English will be taught in the schools. It would not be overstating the case to say that this caused alarm and despondency in France.

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Rwanda: Kagame Reiterates Need to Use English as Education Medium

david — Thu, 23 Oct 2008 11:08:51 +0000

President Paul Kagame yesterday stressed the urgency in the process of using English as a medium of education in all Rwandan schools, saying it is a choice Rwandans have to make if they need development, reports allafrica.com. He said this while visiting Ecole Primaire d’Application de Kimihurura (EPAK), a primary school located in Kimihurura, Gasabo District.

“The kind of education we want for our children is that which is in line with the vision in place for the development of our country we have to prioritise the language that will make them competent when they get on the labour market after completing school,” the President said while meeting the teaching staff of the school.

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Rwanda opts for English teaching

david — Sat, 18 Oct 2008 06:35:57 +0000

Rwanda’s cabinet has decided that all education will be taught in English instead of French. Officially the Rwandan decision is a result of joining the English-speaking East African Community.

But relations between Rwanda and France have been frosty following the 1994 genocide, when France was accused of supporting Hutu militias. Rwanda has applied to join the Commonwealth, the loose association of ex-British colonies and territories.

France has consistently denied any responsibility for the genocide, in which some 800,000 Tutsis and moderate Hutus were slaughtered in 100 days. In 2006, a French judge implicated Rwandan President Paul Kagame in the downing in 1994 of then-President Juvenal Habyarimana’s plane – an event widely seen as triggering the killings.

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Rwanda: English Language Teacher Trainers’ Workshop Closes

david — Mon, 18 Aug 2008 08:32:24 +0000

A two-week English-language teacher trainers’ workshop closed yesterday with thirty receiving certificates at Chez John. The English course was sponsored and facilitated by the United States Embassy in Rwanda through the English Language Specialist Program which is under the US State Department and operates through its embassies.

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14 years after being invited, the British Council lands in Rwanda

david — Wed, 04 Jun 2008 07:17:08 +0000

Elementary Preservice Teachers’ Utilization of English Language Development Instructional Strategies in the Teaching of Science to English Learners

The majority of educators agree that there is a pressing need for dramatic changes in the way we deliver instruction to schoolchildren, particularly English learners. English learners face the daunting task of learning the academic curriculum and a new language concurrently. With their numbers rising across not only the U.S, and increased accountability requirements focusing on their performance, schools are under pressure to better serve these students.

In a study noted on the RedOrbit website, the researcher has identified twelve English Language Development (ELD) strategies appropriate for the teaching of elementary science to English learners. This study allowed for the application of the author’s research in 67 elementary classrooms, resulting in the identification and clarification of specific research-based ELD instructional strategies relevant for the teaching of elementary science to English learners.

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Africa

Rwanda: French Speakers Make Good English Students

Never an organisation to be slow on the uptake, fourteen years after getting the first invitation the British Council has finally officially launched its activities in Rwanda, promising to focus mainly on leadership and school exchange programmes, with a heavy dose of English language teaching. As if the country hasn’t suffered enough in recent years.

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