Algeria is among many countries in Africa that are taking steps to shift parts of their education system away from French and toward English.
More than a year after Algeria launched a pilot program to teach English in elementary schools, the country is hailing it as a success and expanding it in a move that reflects a widening linguistic shift underway inStudents returning to third- and fourth-grade classrooms this fall will participate in two 45-minute English classes each week as the country creates new teacher-training programs at universities and eyes more transformational changes in the years ahead.
“Teaching English is a strategic choice in the country’s new education policy,” Education Minister Abdelkrim Belabed said last week, lauding the move as an immense success., accounts for the majority of content on the internet and remains a lingua franca in business and science. And as France’s economic and political influence wanes throughout Africa, Algeria is among a longer list of countries gradually transitioning toward English as their main foreign language.
Algeria has more French speakers than all but two nations: France and the Democratic Republic of the Congo. Nearly 15 million of the country’s 44 million people speak it, according to the International Organization of the French Language. Algerian officials frame English classes as a practical rather than political shift, noting the language’s importance in scientific and technical fields.
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