Language and curriculum experts from Cameroon and four other African countries have started meeting at the British Council in Yaounde to develop the most efficient tools of language teaching on the continent through literature. The three-day workshop is part of a project dubbed, “World-Words” and runs till Wednesday 15 December.

World-Words has been developed by the British Council in partnership with the University of KwaZulu-Natal to help tune the Literature curricula of Cameroon, Botswana, Namibia, Nigeria, South Africa to specific African needs and contexts.

The present workshop, which is being facilitated by Literature and Language Studies expert Professor John McRae of Nottingham University and materials development expert Alan Pulverness, is a sequel to a language-teaching experience-sharing workshop which held recently in South Africa.

It will be followed by similar workshops in Botswana, Nigeria and South Africa leading to the production of a World-Words literature and language learning booklet to be used as a training resource in all the participating countries.

The current workshop in Yaounde has been organised in partnership with Cameroon’s Ministry of Secondary Education and the Language and Literature Teachers’ Association known as CAMELTA.