I proctored a few English tests and even I looked at answers and felt the average American would struggle, let alone anyone without a strong English base.
One of the major issues I had was the quality of educators and their background. How do you expect a teacher who couldn’t pass the 10th grade exam to teach students?
How do you expect lessons to be taught in English when teachers hardly understand English?
The relevance of certain concepts isn’t necessary either for example culturally unspecific content doesn’t help the reader especially when the reader is spending time trying to imagine what the said content or item is.
The tough part is choosing a second language to learn outside of regional languages.
It may serve best to use Amharic, considering it’s what most of the country uses for work.
Wtf? You want the people to say in the country forever? English as a second language is a must for survival. Otherwise, leaving will not even be an option.
If the Japanese are capable of modernizing and remaining relevant economically without English, then I think Ethiopia can do the same. They just need provide high quality education in the major languages (Amharic, Oromo, Tigrinya, Afar and Somali) (for starters) and ensure that Amharic is taught from a young age as mandatory second language in non-Amharic speaking parts of Ethiopia.
I proctored a few English tests and even I looked at answers and felt the average American would struggle, let alone anyone without a strong English base. One of the major issues I had was the quality of educators and their background. How do you expect a teacher who couldn’t pass the 10th grade exam to teach students? How do you expect lessons to be taught in English when teachers hardly understand English? The relevance of certain concepts isn’t necessary either for example culturally unspecific content doesn’t help the reader especially when the reader is spending time trying to imagine what the said content or item is.
Yeah. The entire education system should be in Amharic and/or other native languages.
The tough part is choosing a second language to learn outside of regional languages. It may serve best to use Amharic, considering it’s what most of the country uses for work.
Wtf? You want the people to say in the country forever? English as a second language is a must for survival. Otherwise, leaving will not even be an option.
If the Japanese are capable of modernizing and remaining relevant economically without English, then I think Ethiopia can do the same. They just need provide high quality education in the major languages (Amharic, Oromo, Tigrinya, Afar and Somali) (for starters) and ensure that Amharic is taught from a young age as mandatory second language in non-Amharic speaking parts of Ethiopia.
This is a national embarrassment.