Fundamental School Curriculum, Operational Teaching Programme, Third Cycle: English (Option), 8th Year

The document sets out the program of English as an option course in the 8th Year of the third cycle of the fundamental school for the school year 1989-1990. It opens with the preamble and the general framework of the third cycle, then gives the English program: 2 hours a week over 30 school weeks, 60 hours a year.

The program rests on the finding that English teaching in Haiti was in a critical situation, with no program of defined general and specific objectives, thematic content and vocabulary, and a method based only on grammar rules and translation. It sets two general objectives, understanding and conveying oral messages about everyday situations, and understanding simple written texts and writing in a limited number of situations. It is organized by themes of social acts and factual information, in a spiral that reintroduces language functions year after year.