| ID: | 29792 |
| Title: | English for Development in Africa |
| URL: | http://www.englishffl.org |
| Category: | Education: XYZ-Others |
| Description: | English as first foreign language initiative is a website to help African countries develop themselves and get out of isolation by adopting English as first foreign language like the vast majority of countries in the world. To learn more about the goal of this initiative please visit our website now!
This is initiative has started when a group of Tunisian citizens noticed the fact that we were among the last nations on earth not to speak English as 1st foreign language … Following that each time we thought about it we found a new good side or advantage to it … Therefore has emerged the idea of this initiative as a way to help the developing economies like Tunisia to develop by simply changing the first foreign language they used … As Tunisians, our native language is Arabic and we had been using French as first foreign language following the French occupation of Tunisia from 1881 to 1956 as a practical way to access science and technology. We have no reason to keep doing that because French is not our language and because today it acts as a screen as the only scientific or technological publications that reach us are only the ones translated to French … Therefore we may be missing material which is useful to us. Thirdly, the use of the French language is acting like a barrier between us and other countries other than France which keeps us in a state of isolation and dependency to France ….
With this initiative, based on benevolent work, we hope for our country and our people to start a new era of openness and international exchanges which will be diversified and rich, on all levels : Scientific, technological, economical, cultural, political … where we could really belong and contribute to the international community ! |
| Meta Keywords: | english for development in africa,xyz-others,mahdi mrabet |
| Meta Description: | English as first foreign language initiative is a website to help African countries develop themselves and get out of isolation by adopting English as first foreign language like the vast majority of countries in the world. To learn more about the goal of this initiative please visit our website now!
This is initiative has started when a group of Tunisian citizens noticed the fact that we were among the last nations on earth not to speak English as 1st foreign language … Following that each time we thought about it we found a new good side or advantage to it … Therefore has emerged the idea of this initiative as a way to help the developing economies like Tunisia to develop by simply changing the first foreign language they used … As Tunisians, our native language is Arabic and we had been using French as first foreign language following the French occupation of Tunisia from 1881 to 1956 as a practical way to access science and technology. We have no reason to keep doing that because French is not our language and because today it acts as a screen as the only scientific or technological publications that reach us are only the ones translated to French … Therefore we may be missing material which is useful to us. Thirdly, the use of the French language is acting like a barrier between us and other countries other than France which keeps us in a state of isolation and dependency to France ….
With this initiative, based on benevolent work, we hope for our country and our people to start a new era of openness and international exchanges which will be diversified and rich, on all levels : Scientific, technological, economical, cultural, political … where we could really belong and contribute to the international community ! |
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