Algeria is among many countries in Africa to take steps to transition parts of its education system away from French and toward English.
Schoolchildren attend a class Tuesday, Sept.19, 2023 in the Ben Omar district of Algiers. More tan 11 millions student are back to school Tuesday. – More than a year after Algeria launched a pilot program to teach English in elementary schools, the country is hailing it as a success and expanding it in a move that reflects a widening linguistic shift underway in former French colonies throughout Africa.
“Teaching English is a strategic choice in the country’s new education policy,” Education Minister Abdelkrim Belabed said last week, lauding the move as an immense success. This year, neighboring Mali changed its constitution to remove French from its list of official languages and Morocco made English classes compulsory in high schools.
But questions about French's position in Algerian society have long been polarizing, as teachers and former education policy officials acknowledge.
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