Language Education Policy

7. http://www.pisa.oecd.org

11. -Burmese is the country’s lingua franca.
• The Myanmar government has therefore promoted the use of
minority languages, but more in an attempt to divide the
opposition than in any attempt to revivify indigenous languages
(Callahan 2003:166).
• Students who are interested in learning more about their mother
tongue need to go elsewhere because public national schools
only offers curriculum in Burmese and English only in that
subject.
• In Myanmar, they cannot adopt yet the MTB-MLE for they are
challenged when it comes to teachers and textbooks.
• In addition, textbooks in mother tongue will be another
expenditure. So, with the ASEAN integration, Myanmar’s
preparation is still insufficient.

12. LAOS

13. • One of the poorest
countries.
• Student’s access in primary
school are recorded to be
higher.
• Boys have a higher rate of
education.

14. • General Education system is organized in
three levels:
Primary (Grades 1-5)
Lower Secondary ( Grades 6-8)
Upper Secondary ( Grades 9-11)
• Considered as monolingual.