New Mon Language Curriculum Ready for Government Schools
New Mon Language Curriculum Ready for Government Schools
Irrawaddy News, 25 Jan 2016
URL: http://www.irrawaddy.com/burma/new-mon-language-curriculum-ready-for-government-schools.html
The training of 400 teachers in a new child-centered curriculum for the instruction of the Mon language began this week in Moulmein.
Regional volunteers and civil servants who work as Mon language instructors in government schools will attend the training in the Mon State capital. Participants are from Mon and Karen states, and Tenasserim Division.
The Mon Language Curriculum Committee within the Mon State government has finished drafting primary-level textbooks, a basic Mon language book and a teacher’s guide for the upcoming school year. The materials were adapted from Burma’s national curriculum and are based on “mother tongue-based multilingual education,” an approach in which students are instructed in their first language as a way to both preserve non-dominant languages and build confidence in learning.
Regional volunteers and civil servants who work as Mon language instructors in government schools will attend the training in the Mon State capital. Participants are from Mon and Karen states, and Tenasserim Division.
The Mon Language Curriculum Committee within the Mon State government has finished drafting primary-level textbooks, a basic Mon language book and a teacher’s guide for the upcoming school year. The materials were adapted from Burma’s national curriculum and are based on “mother tongue-based multilingual education,” an approach in which students are instructed in their first language as a way to both preserve non-dominant languages and build confidence in learning.