Who Are WE?
Our Mission
CAMELTA, the Cameroon English Language and Literature Teachers Association is a national body whose major goal is to improve the quality of English Language teaching and learning and to promote high standards of in-service language teacher training in Cameroon. The association provides a forum for the upgrading and recycling of teachers, a gateway to the improvement of the quality of teaching. It thus helps provide better results in our classrooms. English Language Teacher Associations have existed in most of the ten regions of Cameroon for some time. These ELTAs have offered a regular forum for the introduction and exchange of new pedagogic practices.
ELTAs have fostered collegiality and helped promote mutual support. CAMELTA was created in April 2001. It united the existing regional associations into a network, each becoming chapters of the national parent body.
Extraordinary Experiences
CAMELTA:
– Invigorates and builds on the strengths of the local chapters and encourages exchange nationwide.
– Gives support to English language teachers in the form of workshops and in-service training.
– Sends delegates to conferences in order to build up international links.
– Envisages a CAMELTA newsletter which will keep chapters abreast of news and events.
Our Objectives
- Improve the practice of language teaching and learning
- Promote high standards of in-service language teacher training
- Foster and promote scholarship relating to language teaching
- Foster high academic and professional standards
- Break down the isolation that teachers experience both in their classrooms and their schools
- Encourage co-operation and mutual support
- Foster the exchange of ideas resources, information and experience
- Offer a regular forum for the introduction, production and exchange of new ideas, practices, materials and other resources
- Provide opportunities for personal language development
- Encourage the development of foreign language teacher identity and collegiality
- Create a forum for the promotion of ever more teacher friendly ELT
- Generate networking and sharing of skills in best practice and new approaches in ELT
- Stay trade union free and focus on the professionalisation of ELT in our country, through in-service training of members.
