Ethnic schools offer bilingual education

时间：2007-05-11 03:16:49

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Chinanews, Beijing, May 10 – Currently, teaching in more than 10,000 elementary and high schools in the residential1 areas of ethnic2 groups in China is conducted in two languages at a time, both mandarin3 Chinese and the language of the given ethnic group, involving 29 different languages of 21 ethnic groups. There are some 3,500 kinds of textbooks in the languages of ethnic groups available in the market. It is said that more than 100 million copies of such books have been sold.

 

More than 6 million ethnic students in China now enjoy the conveniences of bi-ingual education, not including 1 million adults in literacy schools in such areas, which are bilingual, too.

 

Even some colleges offer Mongolian, Tibetan, Uygur, Korean and Kazak courses, for these languages have become a vital part of China's culture and education system.

 

Bilingual education is one of the best ways to preserve the languages and characters of ethic4 groups, especially when the culture of Han people are in an overwhelmingly strong position.

 

Nowadays, Zhuang, Yi and Dai peoples have the courses of their languages in both elementary and high schools. The people of some other ethnic groups, like Miao and Dong, only have elementary courses of their own languages available at present. However, some ethnic groups don't have their own scripts, thus their language can only serve as a supplement to the mandarin Chinese in education.

 
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1 residential kkrzY3     
adj.提供住宿的；居住的；住宅的
参考例句：
  • The mayor inspected the residential section of the city.市长视察了该市的住宅区。
  • The residential blocks were integrated with the rest of the college.住宿区与学院其他部分结合在了一起。
2 ethnic jiAz3     
adj.人种的，种族的，异教徒的
参考例句：
  • This music would sound more ethnic if you played it in steel drums.如果你用钢鼓演奏，这首乐曲将更具民族特色。
  • The plan is likely only to aggravate ethnic frictions.这一方案很有可能只会加剧种族冲突。
3 Mandarin TorzdX     
n.中国官话，国语，满清官吏；adj.华丽辞藻的
参考例句：
  • Just over one billion people speak Mandarin as their native tongue.大约有十亿以上的人口以华语为母语。
  • Mandarin will be the new official language of the European Union.普通话会变成欧盟新的官方语言。
4 ethic ziGz4     
n.道德标准，行为准则
参考例句：
  • They instilled the work ethic into their children.他们在孩子们的心中注入了职业道德的理念。
  • The connotation of education ethic is rooted in human nature's mobility.教育伦理的内涵根源于人本性的变动性。

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