The Specific Objectives of the department Modern issues regarding language like multilingualism and bilingualism, cross-cultural communication, mass communication, etc should also be emphasized to enable the candidates gain general knowledge about the language. The Afan Oromo department needs language trainers to be aware of language and culture. To see well trained language experts those have reliable knowledge about the language and their society.To create Afan Oromo as one of linguistically developed and widely accepted language.

In this days the department has been offering MA, BA and B.Ed degrees in Afan Oromo in regular, extension, weekend and summer in-service programmers. Accordingly, the current curriculum of the department was designed in 2009 in BA Degrees and the department has been producing professionals like journalists, public officers, translators, researchers, authors, artistes and others. Thus, in order to satisfy the existing current needs and the future demand of trained manpower in the language, for instance, to serve the community in public relation services in various government and non- governmental offices, to teach in high schools and teachersвЂ™ training institutes and colleges, and to serve in media and communication centers, it has become very significant to review and make more widen the existing curriculum. However, by offering BEd degree with the then curriculum, it was not possible for the department to supply the diverse demand for graduate of Afan Oromo in the country. It is traceable that the department had been offering BEd degree in Afan Oromo for at least five years since 2004-2008. Degrees in Afan Oromo in regular, extension and summer in-service programmers. Since then, the Department has been offering B.Ed. Concomitantly, the program was launched at Jimma University and Haramaya University in the 2004/2005 academic year for the first time in the history of the country. The Government of Oromia Regional State has given due attention to promote Afan Oromo to B.Ed degree level in order to meet this urgent demand for qualified professionals in Afan Oromo.

Having qualified personnel in Afan Oromo has therefore become an urgent need of the region. Moreover, it has become a medium of instruction in teachersвЂ™ training institutes as well as other colleges in Oromia. This opportunity has also led to the language being taught as a subject in Oromia high schools. Similarly, Afan Oromo has had the chance to be used as a medium of instruction in primary schools and as an official language of Oromia regional state.

Using the nations and nationalitiesвЂ™ languages in different socio-cultural spheres has continued to encourage the language speakers of Ethiopia to use and promote their mother tongues. The formulation of the New Education and Training Policy of 1994 brought about the use of mother tongues in schools.

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