The teaching of Arabic in France: an eternal debate?

Arabic letters iStock / © asafta

By: Emmanuelle Bastide

2 min

At the beginning of October Emmanuel Macron launched his action plan against separatism.

Among its proposals is the teaching of Arabic in high school to regain ground in the face of radicalized associations. Arabic, the second language of France, is one of the least taught in schools.

It concerns a little more than 14,000 students in 2019 educated in 359 establishments, i.e. less than 3% of middle and high schools. * Is this language little chosen by families, including those for whom it is the mother tongue or very little? proposed by the Ministry of National Education?

Has the teaching of Arabic always posed a political problem at the school of the Republic?

How to make it an international language, just like Chinese? * Source Ministry of National Education

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With:

Nabil Wakim

, journalist at

and author of

Wilfried Serisier,

vice-president of the

and former President of the association of the Union des Coordinations Locales (UCL) of the FCPE d'Aubervilliers (main federation of parents of pupils)

A testimony from an Arabic teacher in secondary school collected by

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