3. Prof. Dr. Suwilai Premsrirat, former director of the Institute of Language and Culture Research f or Rural Development at Mahidol University in Bangkok , said “… Like the loss of biodiversity, the loss o f language is happening at an alarming rate. In Thailand, one of the reasons for this linguistic deterioration is t he government's unofficial policy of promoting standard Thai - the medium of instruction in all schools … ” ( Lim L i Min : “ Globalization: Saving Thailand's other languages ” reported in International Herald Tribune , October 23, 2006)
13. Grade 1-3 Pre-school Listening- Speaking in Pwo Karen Reading- Writing in Pwo Karen Listening-Speaking Thai Reading-Writing Thai Listening- Speaking English Grade 4-6 Reading-Writing English Thai Pwo Karen Thai Pwo Karen English English Thai Pwo Karen Thai Pwo Karen Pwo Karen Pwo Karen Pwo Karen as language of instruction Thai as language of instruction
17. Bangkok Post , 27 September 2005 Reported by Sirikul Bunnag . 12 state primary schools in the three provinces, where Yawi is the mother tongue of 80 % people, will pioneer bilingual studies next years. Education permanent secretary Khunying Kasama Vorawan said the four-decade old ban had been aimed at forcing Muslim students in Narathiwat, Yala and Pattani to learn Thai, but had failed. She admitted yesterday the approach caused children to reject the Thai language and their parents eventually pulled them out of state schools The Education Ministry will lift its ban next year on the Yawi language at state schools in the three southernmost provinces and begin teaching a Thai-Yawi bilingual programme to integrate Muslim children into Thai society.
18. curriculum structure of Pwo-Karen’s cultural mathematics chance and information chance and information chance and information chance pattern pattern pattern pattern counting math. Language Addition & subtraction Money counting math. Language Addition & subtraction Money counting math. language money number Measuring and estimating area time Measuring and estimating area time Measuring and estimating area time measurement space shape space shape space shape area Grade 2 Grade 1 Pre-school content
19. use low-cost laptop for data collection, material development and learning cultural math. through weaving design
Editor's Notes
The workshop for Alphabet Design was organized again with the cooperation of the linguists of SIL.
This time we invited Pwo Karen community leaders and villagers from the site and other villages near by.
