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Talking in, Talking around and Talking about the L2: Three Literacy Teaching Responses to L2 Medium of Instruction in the Lao PDR
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Cincotta-Segi, Angela – Compare: A Journal of Comparative and International Education, 2011
With speakers of over one hundred languages, the Lao PDR is one of the most ethnically and linguistically diverse nations in Southeast Asia. However, its education policy stipulates that Lao is the language of education at all levels of schooling. Non-ethnic Lao students are thus required to learn literacy in a language which they do not speak.…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Language of Instruction, Foreign Countries, Sino Tibetan Languages