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Ministry of Education Presents National Francophone Song Festival<\/STRONG> T<\/SPAN>he Ministry of Education (MINERD in Spanish) held the National FrancophoneSongFestival as one of the activitiesfor celebrating Francophone Month, which offers Dominicanstudentsanopportunity to learn aboutthe cultureofFrench-speaking countriesand develop their communication skills through artistic and cultural activities.<\/P> \u201cFor us it is very important that Dominican students learn French, as this allows them to expand their cultural universe and have more and better opportunities in academic and professional areas,\u201d Henr\u00edquez said.<\/P> When delivering her speechon behalf of Education Minister Josefina Pimentel, MINERD Impact Programs Coordinator Ligia Henr\u00edquez said that, in partnership with francophone institutions, they have developed several programs to streng then and improve the quality of education, especially those oriented to on going teacher training.<\/P> \u201cFor us it is very important that Dominican studentslearnFrench, as thisallows them toexpand theircultural universeand have moreand better opportunitiesin academicand professional areas,\u201d Henr\u00edquez said.<\/P> Meanwhile, Dr. Delia Blanco, Francophone ambassador inthe countryunder the Ministry of Foreign Affairs,in her lecture ontheFrench language, Francophonie and Multilingualism, said that theDominican Republichas been a state member of the Organisation Internacionale de la Francophonie <\/EM>(OIF) since October 22, 2010. The OIF was created in 1970 and it has 70 member states and governments united by the French language. <\/P> Blanco emphasized thatthe Dominican authoritiesunderstandthat French isa tool for developmentand integrationandshe thanked MINERD\u201c for their enthusiasm with francophonie during these days and involvement with the schools.\u201d<\/P> \u201cThe ministries of education, thanks to cooperative partnering measuresinDominican educationare preparing professors and future scholarship recipientstoproperlyhandlethe French language,\u201dsaid the Francophone ambassador.She reported thatof the 220million French speakersin the world, 60% are under30 years of age, meaning that the French languageis instilledmainly in are productive segment of the population, so expect them to produce more French speakers. Present at theNational FrancophoneSongFestivalwas the Ambassadorof Switzerland to theDominican Republic, LineMarieLeon-Pernet;on behalfof the Embassy ofFrance,the person in charge oflinguistic cooperation, Anne Dutestre; FiorBencosme, head of InternationalRelations for APECUniversity;andJosianneGarelli, Director of the Departmentof Modern Languages atthe Technological University ofSantiago(UTESA). Regional and districtdirectorsofeducationand students also attended.<\/P> The ceremony had artistic presentations in French by students from different levels of the various education regions.<\/P> Ministry of Education Presents National Francophone Song FestivalDominican Republic, Santo Domingo 4\/10\/2013 The Ministry of Education (MINERD in Spanish) held the National FrancophoneSongFestival as one of the activitiesfor celebrating Francophone Month, which offers Dominicanstudentsanopportunity to learn aboutthe cultureofFrench-speaking countriesand develop their communication skills through artistic and cultural activities. \u201cFor us it is very important that … Continue reading “Ministry of Education Presents National Francophone Song Festival”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6255","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-noticias"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dominicanaonline.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6255"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dominicanaonline.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dominicanaonline.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dominicanaonline.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dominicanaonline.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6255"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.dominicanaonline.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6255\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dominicanaonline.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6255"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dominicanaonline.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6255"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dominicanaonline.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6255"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
Dominican Republic, Santo Domingo 4\/10\/2013<\/P>
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Since 1997, the coverage of French in the official curriculumhas been expanded. It used to be taught at the middle school level only, while today it iscompulsory from the fifth gradeon.<\/P>
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Students who participated in National Francophone Song Festival<\/P><\/TD><\/TR><\/TBODY><\/TABLE>
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