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1. FOREWORD

The Rwanda Basic Education Board (REB) is pleased to provide the English Teacher Training and Self-study manuals for teachers. The manuals were developed based on developed English syllabuses for Rwandan teachers at Beginner and Intermediate levels of English Proficiency. The manuals serve as official documents with the aim of ensuring consistency and coherence in the delivery of quality English Language Education in Rwandan schools. 

An important contribution to achieving quality education is the improvement of teachers’ proficiency in English as they are the key deliverers of English as the medium of instruction. To ensure quality English Language skills of teachers in Rwanda, it is imperative that they are provided with selfstudy manuals from which they can learn. REB/Teacher Development and Management and Career Guidance and Counseling Department (TDM & CGC) has developed six English Teacher Training and self-study manuals for Rwandan teachers in collaboration with the University of Rwanda, English teachers and various development partners. Furthermore, these training manuals were harmonized with other manuals developed by various development partners involved in Continuous Professional Development for teachers in English. English has been the medium of instruction from primary school throughout university in the education system in Rwanda since 2009-2010 academic year. 

Yet, as has been observed throughout the years, teachers’ proficiency in English language still needs improvement. English Teacher Training and Self-Study Manual is one of the efforts to remedy the situation at Primary and Secondary School levels. To serve the different levels of needs and to include the most likely needed content, two manuals were developed and organised into six sub-levels corresponding to the levels of language competence described in the Common European Framework of Reference for Languages (CEFR) at Beginner and Intermediate levels. 

The content in all these levels draws on the Competence Based Curriculum (CBC) describing the philosophy and content for teaching and learning in Rwanda. 

Dr. MBARUSHIMANA Nelson 

Director General Rwanda Basic Education Board

2. ACKNOWLEDGMENT

I wish to sincerely extend my special appreciation to the people who have played a major role in the development of the English manuals for teachers. It would not have been successfully developed without the participation of a number of different education stakeholders. For this, I would like to express my deep gratitude. 

My thanks first go to the staff of the Rwanda Basic Education Board who were involved in the planning, writing and review of the manual. I wish to extend my appreciation to the writing team for their valuable efforts during the development of the manuals. I also wish to acknowledge the contribution of teachers who supported Rwanda Basic Education Board in developing the manuals and the University of Rwanda lecturers for proofreading, reviewing and editing the manuals. I express my sincere gratitude to the development partners who are, but not limited to, Building Learning Foundation (BLF), World Vision, The Wellspring Foundation for Education, British Council, Rwanda Aid, Inspire, Educate and Empower Rwanda (IEE) for their technical support. 

Their respective initiatives, co-operation and support significantly contributed to the successful production and harmonisation of the manuals by the Teacher Development and Management and Career Guidance and Counseling Department (TDM&CGC). 

MUGENZI.N. Leon 

Head of Department Teacher Development & Management and Career Guidance & Counseling Department (TDM&CGC).

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