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Senegal Introduces English in Nursery Schools
The Citizen
|February 11, 2025
"Good morning, teacher!" a chorus of Senegalese five-year-olds responded at a school where English has been introduced alongside the official language of French.
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Dakar - "Good morning, teacher!" a chorus of Senegalese five-year-olds responded at a school where English has been introduced alongside the official language of French.
The pupils at the nursery school near central Dakar repeated the English words out loud.
"They're interested in the lesson and they start a conversation with 'how are you?'" said teacher Absa Ndiaye.
Hers is one of more than 600 classes in Senegal that have been testing a new programme of teaching English in nursery and primary schools since mid-January in a push for better connectivity with the wider world.
The developing country, which has seen a massive youth boom but also an exodus of young people searching for a better life, has recently become an oil and gas producer.
This story is from the February 11, 2025 edition of The Citizen.
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