Emmanuel Nforbi (PhD) is Associate Professor of Linguistics in the department of African Studies, Faculty of Letters and Social Sciences, Dschang University, Cameroon. As language education specialist, he has produced scientific works both in first language education, namely on adult mother tongue literacy, and second language education. His public

I am a Cameroonian high school teacher of Bilingual letters (English for Francophones and French for Anglophones). I am very interested in TEFL research, at the university and seondary levels. My contact is: Martin Bolivar Siéwoué High school teacher of EFL and FFL MPhil in English language and linguistics PhD student researcher in English and Co

THE 2012 AND 2014 COMPETENCE-BASED EFL CURRICULA IN CAMEROON SECONDARY EDUCATION: THE PRONUNCIATION COMPONENT Emmanuel Nforbi (PhD) & Martin Bolivar Siéwoué Dschang University, Cameroon ABSTRACT The competence based approach with entry through real – life situations has brought in much change in the training of the Cameroonian secondary school

Authors: Emmanuel Nforbi (PhD) & Martin Bolivar Siéwoué ABSTRACT From competence as the knowledge of language to competence as the ability to perform adequately both in attitude and actions, English language teaching to Francophone students in Cameroon, like the other subjects in the different curricula in secondary education, has known deep tran

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CURRICULUM VITAE Martin Bolivar Siéwoué High School Teacher M.A. - English Language and Linguistics PhD Student – English and Commonwealth Studies PERSONAL INFORMATION Date and place of birth: 16th June 1989, Banka – Bafang Marital status: Single Domicile: Foumban, West - Cameroon P.O. Box: 138 Foumban Tel: (+237) 652 34 31 08 / 693 22 96 88

ABSTRACT: This paper seeks to show the significance that should be given to tense and aspect as central grammatical features attached to the verb phrase, on the postulate that if tense and aspect are not mastered by the learners of English, in particular and the languages in general, they never build an acceptable sentence in the target language. A