North Africa’s EFL Training Course
Teaching English as a foreign language or EFL teaching is a rewarding career that can help developing countries to gain a voice in the developed world. It can help in terms of education, the economy and trade. A common second or first language can also help the world’s different cultures to be shared. You can teach English as a foreign language if you have a degree and have undergone EFL training.
Africa has become one of the most popular continents to travel to as an EFL teacher. French and German are two other languages spoken widely on the continent as well as the thousands of native languages. English is common in those areas that were dominated by British colonialists however it remains relatively unknown in some places.
Rwanda has now begun a national programme of teaching in English at primary and secondary schools. They hope to use English so that the children of today will be able to speak English when they become government officials, academics, business men and women and diplomatic envoys.
French has been the traditional teaching language until now and the shift to English has been put down to the Francophone feelings since the genocide in 1994. Relations have cooled as both countries blame each other for the mass killings.
The switch to English has not been given this reason by officials but national and international commentators see this as a major factor. The official line is that communication with the rest of the world will be easier with English as the common second language. This does not only apply to potential foreign trading countries like China, England and the US. Their neighbouring countries also use English as their second language so it would smooth relations between them too. These countries include Tanzania, Kenya and Uganda.
The use of English as a common worldwide language is also used in business so that international offices can communicate with each other. With EFL training you can become a teacher of English in almost every country of the world.
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