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The African continent's rich history of European colonization has resulted in an abundant amount of influence on each state's developmental trajectory. Most African states' modern government and societal infrastructures were developed by the relevant colonial power during the period between colonization and independence, including its methods of implementing education. [4]
The constitution guarantees free education, so private schools can use any language, but state(-recognised) schools teach in the language of the language area where it is located. For Brussels, which is an officially bilingual French–Dutch area, schools use either Dutch or French as medium.
Teaching English as a second language (TESL) refers to teaching English to students whose first language is not English. The teaching profession has used different names for TEFL and TESL; the generic "teaching English to speakers of other languages" (TESOL) is increasingly used, which covers TESL and TEFL as an umbrella term. [5]
Teaching English to learners with special requirements, e.g. visual / hearing impairment, dyslexia; Language development for teachers; Language support, e.g. mainstream teaching programmes, specialist skills support. Candidates can narrow down their specialist area to research a particular aspect in appropriate depth.
The European Union is a supranational union composed of 27 member states. The total English-speaking population of the European Union and the United Kingdom combined (2012) is 256,876,220 [1] (out of a total population of 500,000,000, [2] i.e. 51%) including 65,478,252 native speakers and 191,397,968 non-native speakers, and would be ranked 2nd if it were included.
EvaluNet has also had a role to play in developing online resources for teachers in South Africa, [3] namely with its online publication Teacher's Monthly and its involvement in developing an online publication entitled Teaching English Today for the English Academy of Southern Africa ― the only academy for the English language in the world.
Practices in language education vary significantly by region. Firstly, the languages being learned differ; in the United States, Spanish is the most popular language to be learned, whereas the most popular languages to be learned in Australia are German, French, Italian and Mandarin Chinese.
Communicative language teaching (CLT), or the communicative approach (CA), is an approach to language teaching that emphasizes interaction as both the means and the ultimate goal of study.