Attitudes towards the Burgeoning Rivalry between English and French at Primary Level

Abstract

The study at hand aimed at measuring the teachers’ and educational inspectors’ attitudes towards the incorporation of English as an additional foreign language alongside French at primary level. To this end, this study relied on a questionnaire, a semi-structured interview and a simple random sampling that covered 60 participants. The findings disclosed that the majority of the participants displayed positive attitudes towards the inclusion of English in parallel with French. These attitudes are governed by the status of English, being the world language, and the language of technology and progress. However, still a minority of the participants expressed their preference to keep the situation the way it is, with French being the sole foreign language taught.