Mother Tongue-Based Multilingual Education in the Asia-Pacific Region

Multilingual Matters

Mother Tongue-Based Multilingual Education in the Asia-Pacific RegionAuthor(s): Suwilai Premsrirat, David Hirsh\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Multilingual Matters, United Kingdom\nImprint: Multilingual Matters\nISBN-13: 9781800419728, 978-1800419728\nSynopsis\nThis book sheds light on the role of mother tongue-based multilingual education (MTB MLE) as a means to enhance educational outcomes, creating a space for non-dominant languages alongside more dominant regional, national and international languages. It brings together a number of underlying concerns including the maintenance of non-dominant languages, the context of language policy and planning in shaping this process, the poor educational outcomes of many speakers of non-dominant languages in mainstream education programs and the economic and social importance of becoming multilingual. It focuses on the experiences of those involved in MTB MLE programs in early childhood, primary, secondary, tertiary and adult education from n.