Burundi: L'enseignement et apprentissage du français aux élèves rapatriés

1965, 1969, 1972 and from April 2015 1988.1993 alas, Burundi lives recurrently a political-ethnic violence spiral that claimed the lives of hundreds of thousands of Burundian and forced into internal and external exile more one million Burundi.
Since 2006, most of these exiles began returning voluntarily, while others are forcibly evicted from Tanzania to neighboring provinces of Burundi. In total, 478 865 people have been repatriated since 2002 and 95.068 in 2008. And since August 2013, following the political tensions between Rwanda (northern Burundi) and Tanzania (east and southern Burundi) 10,000 5à Burundi refugees were forcibly repatriated a week.
People in school age integrate the education system in place where French is a language taught and teaching language. It was initiated in classes, intercultural dialogue of languages and cultures in contact between students who speak Swahili and English on one hand and on the other hand their hosts who speak Kirundi and French elementary level. However, resistors extending to verbal or physical violence are seen following their remoteness of linguistic realities of their migratory journey
To achieve the objectives of social inclusion and school integration strategies have been implemented to allow newcomers to develop a practice more or less adequate French. Cultural sessions with spontaneous participation and freedom to use the language they master the most (French, English, Swahili and Kirundi) facilitated the initiation of a synergy in training in French with other languages of the course migration of our learners Based on a work tool, basic lexicon in four languages taught in Burundi in 2011 funded a priority solidarity fund for French cooperation

I introduced theatrical improvisations activities such as motivational tools and learning about living together and reconciliation and for the personal development of learners pleasure of learning French and to learn French we have prepared and performed a sequence on reconciliation Patrice Faye and each repetition was , simultaneously, subject to a French lesson . This was a source of cohesion among our learners. The motivation was strengthened and despite their learning difficulties and communicate a positive report to the French language has gradually developed and installed.
Note , for all practical purposes, a dramatic decision in 2006 , months after the end of a terrible war , was to install the compulsory teaching of languages in the first four primary year to a student population of six years following a 90% rural population . This was to teach simultaneously Kirundi (L1) , mother tongue, French (L2 ), English (L3) and Kiswahili (L4) , widespread language in the neighboring States. This measure was the subject of a scientific and political debate it is easy to guess.
This issue has , subsequently made subject of my thesis project title ; " Burundi : The teaching and learning of French to college kids repatriated from Tanzania and the East of the DRC .Profils language , school conditions and educational proposals"