Local Culture and Teaching Foreign Languages: Integrating Local Cultural Values in Teaching Foreign Languages

The purpose of the book is to present the extent to which local cultural issues may be integrated in the programmes of teaching and learning French as a foreign language in Uganda. The emphasis of the book is on the secondary schools and tertiary institutions in the country. The stakeholders need to do more to incorporate and bring into play local cultural content in the French language curricula and syllabi in the country. This will lead to an achievement of the major objective of teaching and learning French with reference to the learners values in comparison with the cultural aspects in the teaching materials.