IFADEM Haiti, Booklet 1: Reading Comprehension
Summary: The first IFADEM self-study booklet for Haitian teachers, on teaching reading comprehension in French.
Key Findings
- States that French is mastered to varying degrees by about 15 percent of the population while Creole is the mother tongue of all Haitians.
- French is taught from the first year of the fondamental in both cycles.
- A self-study booklet addressed to the teacher directly, in the second person.
Full Description
The first IFADEM self-study booklet for Haitian teachers, on teaching reading comprehension in French. It states plainly the problem the whole exercise addresses: Creole is the mother tongue of every Haitian while French is mastered, to varying degrees, by about 15 percent of the population, and French is nonetheless taught from the first year of the fondamental.
How to cite
Initiative francophone pour la formation à distance des maîtres (IFADEM); Ministry of National Education and Vocational Training (MENFP), 2012, IFADEM Haiti, Booklet 1: Reading Comprehension, accessed via HaitiDocs, https://www.haitidocs.org/doc/ifadem-livret-1-comprehension-ecrite