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in article 39B7DA03.DF21B6@uswest.net, Brett Rabe at brett@uswest.net wrote
on 2000-09-07 11:10 am: > > Actually, Im going to follow-up my own post (bad style, > I know) and point out that my niece was forced (as in, > there was no choice) to choose a foreign language to > learn starting in first grade. I think the choices > were the relatively standard (in the U.S.) French, > German, or Spanish, but still, thats a dramatic > improvement over when I was in school and foreign > languages werent introduced until late junior high > or high school. > > However, she goes to a private school. Im not sure > what they do in public schools nowadays. Probably > play rock, paper, scissors most of the day. :p > > Brett In the education I got in Ghana (postcolonial British school and private) we had to begin learning French from Class 5 onwards (equivalent to Grade 4 or Grade 5 in the U.S.) and there were no options to take other languages. And we kept learning that until the completion of secondary school (Form 5). French was a mandatory language to learn in that school even though Ghana does not use French. The reasoning was because the three surrounding countries--Cote DIvoire, Togo and Burkina Faso--are French-speaking. C |
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