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Central Highlands prioritises teaching of ethnic minorities’ languages

Central Highlands provinces are improving education of ethnic minorities’ languages for primary and secondary pupils.
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Dak Lak (VNA) – CentralHighlands provinces are improving education of ethnic minorities’ languages forprimary and secondary pupils.

Currently, the languages of Ede, Jrai,Bahnar, K’hor and M’nong ethnic minorities are taught for thousands of studentsin Dak Lak, Gia Lai, Kon Tum, Lam Dong and Dak Nong province. Dak Lak alonehouses more than 14,416 students studying these languages at 718 classes across124 primary and secondary establishments.  

In recent year, the localities haveorganised communications campaigns to encourage parents to voluntarily enrolltheir children on ethnic language courses at school. Many local schools employtextbooks published by the Ministry of Education and Training in Ede, Jrai,Bahnar and K’ho languages for 3rd, 4th and 5th graders. In boarding schools forminority students, the education takes place in 6th, 7th, and 8th grades usinglocal teaching programmes and documents.

Since the beginning of the 2018 – 2019school year, Dak Lak province has given free new textbooks in Ede language to 13,170Ede ethnic pupils in 3rd, 4th and 5th grades and 133 Ede language teachersacross 106 local primary schools. The provinces of Kon Tum, Dak Nong and LamDong have annually spent hundreds of billion VND on printing textbooks inethnic minority languages and purchasing teaching tools and equipment.

Most language teachers in the region have beentrained at universities and colleges, and taken part in courses on ethniclanguage education.-VNA 
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