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Ms Emmanuelle Blatmann, French Ambassador to Nigeria, said France has invested 600,000 Euros for the marketing of French language in Nigeria.
Blatmann revealed this in an job interview with the Information Company of Nigeria (NAN) on the sideline of the solidarity fund for revolutionary tasks (FSPI) launch in Abuja.
According to her, the two-year FSPI undertaking aims to strengthen French teachers’ competencies and enhance students’ knowledge of French language in Nigeria.
“French language alternative has verified to be incredibly effective for youthful Nigerians, given the tutorial and qualified opportunities offered to all those who master the language and the country’s proximity to French-speaking neighbours,” she reported.
She attributed the issues faced in mastering written and spoken French among secondary faculty pupils to insufficient access to textbooks, restricted technological machines and insufficient time devoted to instructing French language.
In accordance to her, study shows that some lecturers attest to a constrained mastery of French and most of them have not been experienced in the most recent pedagogical ways of French as a overseas language.
She reported this impacts learners’ motivation and their know-how of French in common.
“It is in opposition to this background that the embassy of France in Nigeria officially sets in movement a new challenge, entitled ‘French in Nigeria, language of interaction and capacity building’.”
“The project will be financed by a specific fund, called “solidarity resources for revolutionary projects”.
“The task, with the slogan “a toi le micro, Najia”, indicating (the mic is yours, Najia) in English, aims at positioning French as a real language of conversation in secondary faculties and in the Nigerian public room.”
She additional disclosed that secondary university instructors will be educated and a network of media platforms using the French language will be developed to aide it.
“The FSPI task will make it possible to deploy a programme for 50 faculties in 5 states in which regional companions have obviously expressed the drive to intensify academic cooperation actions in Enugu, Plateau, Oyo, Lagos states and the FCT.
“The picked educational institutions will reward specifically from a pilot initiative involving teacher trainings in France and in Nigeria, and the buy of books and pc tools.
“A hyperlink will also be created with five FM radio stations and net radio that already broadcast content in French in Nigeria, and to those people who will collaborate with the pilot educational institutions,” she reported.
She added that instructional programmes will be made to let older people and youngsters to follow French language.
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