Patani Malay in Thai education
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Suwilai Premsrirat
Abstract
The Patani Malay–Thai Bilingual Education is an action-participatory research project in schools near the southern border of Thailand. The objective is to provide an effective and suitable teaching and learning approach for Malay-speaking children by developing their cognitive skills as well as their ability to use Thai as a language of learning by initially using local language and cultural knowledge and then transferring their ability to the study of Thai. Communities, academics and other stakeholders are actively involved in every stage of the working process, especially in the development of the orthography, curriculum, lesson planning, instructional material production and teaching within the framework of bilingual education, using child-centered principles. The project shows very positive results.
Abstract
The Patani Malay–Thai Bilingual Education is an action-participatory research project in schools near the southern border of Thailand. The objective is to provide an effective and suitable teaching and learning approach for Malay-speaking children by developing their cognitive skills as well as their ability to use Thai as a language of learning by initially using local language and cultural knowledge and then transferring their ability to the study of Thai. Communities, academics and other stakeholders are actively involved in every stage of the working process, especially in the development of the orthography, curriculum, lesson planning, instructional material production and teaching within the framework of bilingual education, using child-centered principles. The project shows very positive results.
Kapitel in diesem Buch
- Prelim pages i
- Dedication v
- Table of contents vii
- Preface xi
- Foreword xiii
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Introduction
- The diversity of Asia-Pacific language ecologies 1
- Education, power and sociolinguistic mobility 13
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East Asia
- A Yami language teacher’s journey in Taiwan 33
- Power and other issues in minority language education in China 49
- Forming a Korean identity in Japan 65
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Southeast Asia
- Patani Malay in Thai education 91
- Language in schooling in Timor-Leste 111
- Bidayuh as a subject at pre-school and primary levels 131
- Sustaining and maintaining a minority language 153
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Oceania
- UNESCO’s action in culture and the importance of language maintenance in the Pacific 175
- State versus community approaches to language revival 185
- Vernacular education in Papua New Guinea 205
- From despised jargon to language of education 223
- Te Reo Māori – He Reo Kura? (Māori Language – A School Language?) 243
- A study of bilingual education using Samoan language in New Zealand 261
- Index 293
- Authors 289
Kapitel in diesem Buch
- Prelim pages i
- Dedication v
- Table of contents vii
- Preface xi
- Foreword xiii
-
Introduction
- The diversity of Asia-Pacific language ecologies 1
- Education, power and sociolinguistic mobility 13
-
East Asia
- A Yami language teacher’s journey in Taiwan 33
- Power and other issues in minority language education in China 49
- Forming a Korean identity in Japan 65
-
Southeast Asia
- Patani Malay in Thai education 91
- Language in schooling in Timor-Leste 111
- Bidayuh as a subject at pre-school and primary levels 131
- Sustaining and maintaining a minority language 153
-
Oceania
- UNESCO’s action in culture and the importance of language maintenance in the Pacific 175
- State versus community approaches to language revival 185
- Vernacular education in Papua New Guinea 205
- From despised jargon to language of education 223
- Te Reo Māori – He Reo Kura? (Māori Language – A School Language?) 243
- A study of bilingual education using Samoan language in New Zealand 261
- Index 293
- Authors 289
