The information was provided by Caetano Domingos, director of the National Institute for Training of Education Staff (INFQE), who explained that eight schools in each province were chosen to teach this subject.
According to the director, training for teacher trainers has also already begun. Speaking to Jornal de Angola, Caetano Domingos explained that the aim of the training is to improve teachers' skills in teaching methodology for the French language in the first and second cycles.
He said that, this academic year, they will work with teachers who attended the French language teacher training: "We will work this academic year with teachers who participated in the French language teacher training".
According to the director of INFQE, the training programme is funded by the French government and is aimed at French teachers and coordinators from all provinces in the country, at different levels.
The person in charge added that the main objective of this project is to develop skills so that, in the coming years, all primary schools will have French teachers.
"The main objective of the project is to develop skills so that, in the coming years, we can ensure that all schools in the first level have French language teachers teaching", he pointed out.
He also highlighted that the training will ensure inclusive education, based on learning appropriate to the social and psycholinguistic specificities of children, writes Jornal de Angola.
In this experimental stage, each province will have 16 teachers and, according to the person in charge, all teachers are Angolan, with only foreigners as trainers.
He thus reaffirmed that foreign teachers, at this stage, are only used for training.
"We have a project supported by the French government, called Educational Strategies for Innovation and Monitoring (SEPIA), which aims to produce written content in the French language", the person in charge also said, quoted by Jornal de Angola.
It should be recalled that last week, the Minister of Education, Luísa Grilo, said that the next academic year would start on 2 September and would include the inclusion of French in the curriculum for fifth-grade students in public schools.
In May, the minister had already stated that the ministry she heads planned to introduce, from the next academic year, the teaching of French and English in the fifth and sixth grades.
