Country: United Republic of Tanzania
Registration deadline: 28 Aug 2019
Starting date: 02 Sep 2019
Ending date: 20 Sep 2019
This course is intended for participants who have recently arrived in East Africa and require basic Swahili language and culture to enable them to function within their environment. It is a three weeks course offered four times a year, with a total of 90 teaching hours including excursions and Swahili language immersion sessions.
Course objectives
To introduce Swahili language and its culture to participants in order to equip them with the necessary tools and skills to enable them to acquire survival language so as to function effectively in everyday life.
Course content
Greetings, self-introduction, ordering food & drinks, bargaining & buying at a shop/market, introducing family members, talking about the present, past and future activities, Swahili time telling, talking about others, talking about health problems, giving and receiving directions/instructions, describing a place.
Methodologies
Interactive methods:
• Communicative approach (Competence-based approach)
• Immersion approach
• Task-based approach
• Teaching Proficiency through Reading and Storytelling or (TPRS) approach
• Grammar approach & the audio-lingual approach
• Proprioceptive approach
Target group
Development workers, missionaries, doctors, expatriates, researchers, tourists, students and anyone who requires to learn the Swahili language at a beginner level.
How to register:
To register for the program follow the link http://www.mstcdc.or.tz/application/application-swahili-beginners-course-0
For further inquiries related to the program contact the course administrator at laizers@mstcdc.or.tz