Educational Foundations of Zero Barrier Bilingual Education Program
This paper introduces a bilingual project devised for Bai minority preschoolers presently being carried out in a mountain village in Jianchuan County. In this village,children have had a long record of poor educational achievement and minimal progress beyond compulsory education requirements. Many of the villagers interviewed during a household survey carried out in 2002/3 before work started on the preschool program said they felt unengaged by the whole educational process. Several said that working in the fields with their parents was more interesting and more fruitful than going to school. They also hated being cooped up in the classroom all day. My own classroom observations at that time revealed several reasons why students in rural preschools and primary schools are generally not very motivated about school ....
The educational foundations of the Bai preschool program - Liz Billard PhD, Grad. Dip. Chinese Studies (This paper is based on work done while as a member of East Asia Group, SIL International, People’s Republic of China)
SIL East Asia is privileged to serve alongside ethnolinguistic minority communities as they seek to preserve their language and cultural identity as well as to connect more effectively with the wider world.
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