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Revitalizing Indigenous Languages Is Critical
Story Source:Inter Press Service News ~ Go to Original Article
Being fluent in a world language is a desirable skill in modern day society. However,...
Study Calls For Educating Children In Their Mother Tongue
Story Source: Dawn ~ Go to Original Article
Many children in Pakistan cannot read a sentence even after years in school, says a new study...
Mon State Schools To Offer Classes In Mon Language During Regular Hours
Story Source: The Irrawaddy ~ Go to Original Article
For the first time, students at government schools in Mon State will be allowed to take...
Mon Lead The Way In Mother Tongue Education
Story Source: Frontier Myanmar ~ Go to Original Article
The government and ethnic groups in revolt against it have run parallel education systems for decades....
Mother tongue-based education is changing lives in deep South
Think back to your very first day of school. Now imagine what it would have been like if you could not understand the language that your teachers were speaking. What would that be like? And how would you feel if you finished sixth grade, but still could not read or write?
3 examples of mother tongue education to improve learning
GPE supports mother tongue education as a key component of the foundation of learning. On International Mother Tongue Day we review how three partner countries—Eritrea, The Gambia and Uzbekistan—with help from GPE, are implementing mother tongue programs...
Respecting indigenous languages in education is core to reducing exclusion
This year’s International Mother Language Day coincides with the declaration of 2019 by the UN as the International Year for Indigenous Languages, which “matter for development, peace building and reconciliation”...
Bilingual education starts with the mother tongue
The way that mother tongue based multilingual education has been offered may contribute to low parent demand in some settings...
How Indigenous Millennials Are Using Tech to Save Their Dying Languages
Decades of oppression and forced assimilation have led to the steep decline of Indigenous languages. Now tech-savvy young people are fighting to preserve their culture...
Piloting mother-tongue curriculum to improve literacy in Niger
In the third-grade classroom at Ecole Patti, near Makalondi in Niger’s Tilaberri Region, four Fulani girls huddle around a single textbook.
Asked by the teacher...
What’s it like to start reading at 60?
What's it like to read your first words at the age of 60? What difference does it make after a lifetime of getting by...
Let’s Read! Digital Library Brings Books to Northern Thailand
Asia Foundation Powers Access to Minority Language Children’s Books
Chiang Mai, Thailand, August 8, 2017 — In the mountainous regions of Northern Thailand, books are rare...
Why are immigrants less proficient in literacy than native-born adults?
Why is it that even highly educated migrants to OECD countries are less likely to be employed than native-born adults who are similarly educated,...
Multilingual education helps children in north east Cambodia to learn at school
Kratie Province, Cambodia, May 2017: By the time his first lesson begins at 7am, Grade 3 student Nelkea has already fetched water and chopped...
A Surprising Explanation For Why Some Immigrants Excel In Science
Seventeen-year-old Indrani Das just won the top high school science prize in the country. Das, who lives in Oradell, N.J., took home $250,000 from...
Myanmar: Rethinking ethnicity in the classroom
THE ROLE of culture in education is often a controversial subject. In Myanmar, the debate is largely focused on the language of instruction, with...
Building bridges through multilingual schooling: a mother-tongue pilot in East Timor is showing the...
Editor’s note: As the Language on the Move team is busy preparing for the “Bridging Language Barriers” Symposium to be hosted at Macquarie University on March...
Mother Tongues matter amid English-language push in Asia
British Council Senior Adviser John Knagg calls it “the global, suicidal run to early English” – the penchant of many education systems to prioritize...
Thailand: Mind your language
An ensemble of traditional musicians begins to play. The treble sound of the oboe gets louder. Drum rolls accompany a steady rhythm of cymbals....
Multilingual teaching does more than just improve learning
The most widely read GEM Report publication is our paper last year on language policy in education. Why? Because there are about 6,500 languages...
Children learn better in mother tongue
Globally, there are 50-75 million 'marginalised' children who are not enrolled in school. Children whose primary language of instruction in school are more likely...
16 Great Apps for Learning An Aboriginal Language
For those of you interested in learning and exploring an aboriginal language, the collection below has you covered. Curated from iTunes ‘Explore an Aboriginal...
Supporting Mother Tongue Literacy in Uganda – Mango Tree’s Journey
In 2008 and 2009 Mango Tree was trying to put together a proposal to fund a local language literacy pilot project in northern Uganda....
3 examples of mother tongue education
Today, we celebrate International Mother Language Day. Wherever possible, GPE supports mother tongue education as part of providing a quality education. Let’s have a...
Multilingual teaching does more than just improve learning
The most widely read GEM Report publications is our paper last year on language policy in education. Why? Because there are about 6,500 languages...
Sustaining Language Use: Perspectives on Community-Based Language Development
(December 2016) How does a language community sustain its language in the face of ever-increasing forces of language shift? In today's world, thousands of...
Why teaching them in their own language could help 500m children to stay in...
There is growing evidence that children taught first in their home languages - before acquiring additional languages - become better learners and are more likely to stay...
US: Dual-language programs benefit disadvantaged black kids, too, experts say
WASHINGTON, D.C. — In Ivonne Kendrick’s classroom at Houston Elementary School, 3-year-olds sit cross-legged in a circle, listening to their teacher sing about the...
California Can Lead The Nation On Multilingualism And Diversity
On Election Day, Californians cast their votes for diversity and multiculturalism by passing Proposition 58 — a victory worth celebrating in the face of...
‘Invisible’ Children: Raised In The U.S., Now Struggling In Mexico
Children and teenagers of Mexican descent make up one of the fastest-growing populations in the nation's public schools.
That's a well-known statistic, but less known...
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