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Algeria expands English lessons to primary school students

Schoolchild shows his English lessons book in a private school of Birkhadem, outside Algiers, Wednesday, Sept.21, 2022. Algerian children went back to school Wednesday Sept. 21, 2022 for the first time since the president last month ordered schools to switch from teaching French as a second language alongside Arabic to English instead. The government says the move is a modernization effort but it is also seen as a way for Algeria to distance itself from its past as a French colony. (AP Photo/Fateh Guidoum) A teacher gives an English lesson in a private school of Birkhadem, outside Algiers, Wednesday, Sept.21, 2022. Algerian children went back to school Wednesday Sept. 21, 2022 for the first time since the president last month ordered schools to switch from teaching French as a second language alongside Arabic to English instead. The government says the move is a modernization effort but it is also seen as a way for Algeria to distance itself from its past as a French colony. (AP Photo/Fateh Guidoum) Schoolchildren arrive in their classroom in a private school of Birkhadem, outside Algiers, Wednesday, Sept.21, 2022. Algerian children went back to school Wednesday Sept. 21, 2022 for the first time since the president last month ordered schools to switch from teaching French as a second language alongside Arabic to English instead. The government says the move is a modernization effort but it is also seen as a way for Algeria to distance itself from its past as a French colony. (AP Photo/Fateh Guidoum) Schoolchildren attend an English lesson in a private school of Birkhadem, outside Algiers, Wednesday, Sept.21, 2022. Algerian children went back to school Wednesday Sept. 21, 2022 for the first time since the president last month ordered schools to switch from teaching French as a second language alongside Arabic to English instead. The government says the move is a modernization effort but it is also seen as a way for Algeria to distance itself from its past as a French colony. (AP Photo/Fateh Guidoum) Schoolchildren line up at a private school in Birkhadem, outside Algiers, Wednesday, Sept.21, 2022. Algerian children went back to school Wednesday Sept. 21, 2022 for the first time since the president last month ordered schools to switch from teaching French as a second language alongside Arabic to English instead. The government says the move is a modernization effort but it is also seen as a way for Algeria to distance itself from its past as a French colony. (AP Photo/Fateh Guidoum)
Algeria expands English lessons to primary school students