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INTRODUCTION

Tanzania is among the African countries, just after independence began, effects occur in the development of education through policy development, reviews, changes and improvements. These include program design and development for the schools to achieve national goals in education. English as one of the disciplines at all levels of education from primary school to higher education, curriculum and classroom teaching, some of the changes since then. Will observe and analyze the English program in schools in Tanzania, especially in the maintenance of normal levels used, we should see changes in the last curriculum that matches the current curriculum, we have done today. The final curriculum was introduced in 1996 and used until 2005, when the current program was introduced in the use of January. The program was expanded to match the needs, challenges and shortcomings of the old. The students had more activities, the program focuses on students’ skills rather than the old one, which strongly on the content. The program was called by his failure, skills, the level of English has declined over the years, and the main reason for this decline is insufficient to teach English in the schools after the English program. This was seen by Allen K. (2008) in “What happened to our good English And say?:

“Syllabus and textbooks have caused this … High school students fare only slightly better, and also secondary and tertiary education is in English. You may be able to engage the dialogue easy, but in principle only after they asked the question / sentence to be repeated at least once. Here are common, complex structures usually not understood. In English is a bigger problem. How many students write almost absurd, “How are you? For my part, I am beautiful, and fits well with my daily activities. Recently in an interview with graduates who undertake studies in their lack of confidence in the language were in was amazing. To call that I needed to make simple structures with a very slow to accept the natural rate. ” (more…)