Eighteen thousand 585 primary school students, enrolled in the current academic year 2022-2023, are learning the national language Nganguela, in Cuando Cubango, within the scope of the Ministry of Education’s policy of valuing national languages in the country.
To verify the level of application of the teachers and the success of the students, the provincial coordinator of National Languages in Cuando Cubango, Moisés Lituai Fulai, worked at Complexo Escolar nº 09 CCM2 Tribuna do Povo, an act that also served to promote the language.
Speaking to the press at the end of the day, coordinator Moisés Lituai Fulai said that, at the level of Cuando Cubango, the process of teaching the national language Nganguela was running satisfactorily, since the objective is working in the nine municipalities.
He recognized that the positive assessment is the result of the engagement of the 413 teachers who teach this language, although the number is still low for the current demand, but that the refresher actions of the same have contributed to the success of the teaching and learning process.
Without providing statistical data, Moisés Lituai Fulai made it known that, at the level of Cuando Cubango, the teaching of the Nganguela language also includes the primary teaching profession Mwene Vunongue and the “23 de Março” Institute of Administration, in Menongue, ensured by four teachers.
The provincial coordinator assured that he had enough teaching material to serve the more than 18,000 primary school students by the end of the current academic year, in Cuando Cubango, for whom the interest in learning the local language has been increasingly evident on the part of the students, depending on their participation in the classes.
For the current academic year 2023, the education office in Cuando Cubango will carry out, through local coordination, the monitoring of Angolan language classes in schools, assistance, data collection and its dissemination, with a view to assessing the degree of their use with local educational institutions.
In the province of Cuando Cubango, the teaching of the Nganguela language began in 2006, in the capital Menongue. The expansion to other municipalities started in 2014, having already taught to read and write in the local language over 31 thousand and 495 citizens. ALK/JSV/PLB