French Teachers Complete Training Programme

Published in the Daily Graphic on 6th Nov,2009 middle pg

TWO hundred and fifty-one French teachers selected from public and private schools in Cote d'Ivoire, Togo, Chad, Niger and Benin have completed an intensive training programme in Accra to enhance the teaching and learning of the French language in Ghana.
The programme, organised by the Organisation Internationale de la Francophonie (OIF), in collaboration with the Ghana Association of French Teachers (GAFT), was also to sensitise and motivate teachers of French to teach French as a foreign language in Anglophone countries.
It included courses such as Information Technology, Common European Framework for Languages, French Language Teaching Activities, Internet in Language Teaching and Oral Activities in Class.
Explaining the benefit of the programme, the President of GAFT, Mr Evans Kokroko, said it was to enable the teachers of French to be current with foreign language teaching.
He said a special seminar on ‘Common European Framework For Languages’ was being organised, with six regions in Ghana already benefiting, with the exception of the Central, Western, Volta and Eastern regions.
Mr Kokroko said two scholarships had been awarded to the heads of the French departments of the established training colleges to build their capacity in France this year.
At the end of the course, a project code-named ‘Franco-Expo’ was presented as a blueprint for future symposia to raise awareness among Ghanaian workers of the importance of the French language in the country’s development.