the Press: The AFA in Roubaix after
ROUBAIX / DEBATE
For that Arabic is not a dialect
Nord Eclair
March 24, 2010
Mr. Tayeb with three speakers, MM. Weexsteen, secretary of the AFA, Tizaghti, Deputy Siefer-Gaillardin, vice president of the AFA
We struggled yesterday to IUP Infocom teaching of Arabic in France. Well it is the second to be spoken in our country, it is still experiencing difficulties in gaining recognition and learning is still frequently to "pharmacies" are not authorized.
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How many young Roubaisians practice Arabic? Tizaghti Abdellah, Deputy Mayor and himself professor of Arabic in high school, reluctant to give a figure. Certainly from the teaching modules for languages and cultures of origin established in primary schools, colleges and high schools and provided by foreign players, we could probably compile statistics. We also know that five colleges and schools offer Roubaix Arabic as a second language teachers with five dependent Education. But there are also associations. Thus the cultural center of the Arab world that does not separate language and culture and religious associations and impervious to any control that for their part do not want to separate from religion.
spoke Arabic or classical Arabic? Arab religious or secular Arab? The teaching of Arabic - we should say Arabic languages - is seen, a complex issue. "Especially as the awareness of this reality in France even if it is real deep and remains quite slow.
The evolution of this approach resembles that of a super-tanker equipped with an engine freighter, "commented Alfred Siefer-Gaillardin, former ambassador to France and vice-president of the France-Algeria in the opening of the symposium "Language learning in the Arab world in 2010, a conference that seemed delivered turnkey at the cultural center of the Arab world as the number of specialists from the Association France Algeria was impressive.
A bridge between two populations
The association is chaired by Pierre Joxe, former minister, who could not come to Roubaix was created in 1963 by Edmond Michelet, supported in this by General de Gaulle, who wanted to heal the wounds of the war in Algeria and to establish new relationships between people on both sides of the Mediterranean. Minds are also informed that Germaine Tillon, Stéphane Hessen, Bernard Stasi marked the association of their footprint. The AFA wants long "provoke a shock in France on the teaching of language and of Arab civilization." In this regard, His Excellency Mr. Alfred Siefer-Gaillardin believes that Nicolas Sarkozy's speech in Constantine in 2007 marked a turning point.
Bruno Halff, a former inspector General in charge of teaching Arabic at the Ministry does not deny it. That training, he said, has greatly improved over the last two decades due to better teaching tools, through programs better prepared, thanks to better distribution of publications in Arabic. The fact remains that, despite these improvements, this teaching affects fewer people. In twenty years, says former inspector, the number of students has dropped by half in favor of the teaching of other languages such as Chinese origin. Mr. Halff think however that this is a phenomenon passenger. As for claiming that the learning of languages of origin may be an integrating factor ... Mr. Halff avoids being too categorical: "Maybe, provided that such teaching is done properly! "W
