[EDLING:146] Patani-Malay teaching initiative brings hope to children of deep South

Francis M. Hult fmhult at DOLPHIN.UPENN.EDU
Sun May 20 01:38:55 UTC 2007


The Nation

Patani-Malay teaching initiative brings hope to children of deep South

Despite the escalating violence in the country's deep South, the directors of 
four schools in Pattani, Yala and Narathiwat are hopeful that the next academic 
year will bring higher enrolment in their kindergartens, thanks to the 
introduction of some major changes in educational practice into their 
classrooms. 


"Using Patani-Malay as the language of instruction from kindergarten to grade 1 
will spare little children from the confusion and fear of having to learn in a 
language that is not their mother tongue - central Thai," said Apisith Laeha, 
director of Narathiwat's Thairath Wittaya School 10, his alma mater, during a 
recent working session on the idea at the Mahidol Salaya Campus in Nakhon 
Pathom. 

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http://nationmultimedia.com/2007/05/20/opinion/opinion_30034672.php



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