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Title: | Curriculum development in French in West Africa, 1959-1969 |
Author: | Brann, C.M.B. |
Year: | 1969 |
Periodical: | West African Journal of Education |
Volume: | 13 |
Issue: | 1 |
Pages: | 2-7 |
Language: | English |
Geographic terms: | English-speaking Africa West Africa |
Subjects: | language instruction French language |
Abstract: | Deals with the development during 1959-1969 of the teaching of French ('ordinary' level) as a second European language in the English-speaking countries of West Africa. After some information on French as the second international language of Africa South of the Sahara follows a survey of the principal steps in the development of the examinations. Another section deals with the innovations: the 4 language skills; oracy before literacy; language testing: objective tests and personal judgment; the African context; language content; new teaching materials. Ref.; short list of Franco African readers for secondary schools in English-speaking countries; synoptic table of the development of the French O Level Examination in West Africa. |