Background
The department of Amharic language and
literature has started its function in 2007 in Dire Dawa University. It started
its function by offering Amharic as a major and English as a minor. During that
time the department has only four graduate assistants. Now, almost all
instructors in the department are second and third degree holders in Amharic
Language Teaching, Linguistics, Literature, and folklore. In Ethiopia more than
eighty nations and nationalities are living, having their own languages and
cultures. The ministry of education has designed Amharic curriculum in order to
teach Amharic as a first and second language throughout the country.
By taking this into account, for the last
eight years the department has graduated more than 750 students both in regular
and summer programs. Now, I line with the policy and program of teaching
preparatory level students with teachers having MA degree, it is imperative
that the department upgrades its curriculum to postgraduate level to further
enhance its positive contribution to the fulfillment of the national goals in
the education center.
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