Zambia: Will Local Languages Promote Culture in Primary Schools?

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© A group of primary school students in Zambia (GlobalPartnership for Education / Flickr)
Genre : Projets culturels
Pays principal concerné : Rubrique : Histoire/société
Mois de Sortie : 2014
Publié le : 19/02/2014
Source : The Times of Zambia
http://thezambian.com/news/2014/02/03/will-local-languages-promote-culture-in-primary-schools/

Government recently introduced a policy that children from pre-school to grade four be taught in the local languages.

The curriculum would be delivered in Zambia's seven official languages for the first four grades from one to four and then, in the fifth grade, English would take over as a subject.

The seven official languages are Tonga, Bemba, Nyanja, Kaonde, Luvale, Lozi and Lunda (...)

[Read Martin Nyirenda's full article]
Initialy published by The Times of Zambia, January 31, 2014.

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