French-Speaking UNESCO Chair in Linguistics and Didactics of languages in educational systems (24), established in 1995 at the University of Mons-Hainaut (Belgium).

Fields/Disciplines

National languages Teaching;  Linguistic policies in Education;
Foreign language teaching.

Objectifs

• To promote training of decision makers as regards linguistic policies and education
• To help the governments which wish it to solve the problems of bilingual or multilingual education
• To work out and apply programs of mother tongues, second and foreign languages didactics in a functional way
• To teach the methodology of languages and linguistic schemas d'aménagement.

Host Institution

• University of Mons-Hainaut 
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Partnership

• Central Africa Museum (Belgium)
• Université nationale du Bénin (Benin)
• Institut de formation des professeurs de langues (Belarus)
• Université du Burundi (Burundi)
• Université du Niger (Niger)
• Université du Rwanda (Rwanda)
• Université du Centre (Tunisia)
• Université de Tunis (Tunisia)

UNESCO Sector/Office responsible for the Chair/Network

Education.

Contact

Prof. Raymond Renard, Coordinateur de la Chaire UNESCO

Université de Mons-Hainaut
E-Mail address - raymond.renard(at)umons.ac.be

Work Phone - 32-65.37.31.36.

Fax -32-65.37.30.54.

20, Place du Parc
Mons
B 7000
Belgique