- Start Date 06/05/2025
- Start Time: CET 10:00
- End Date 07/01/2025
- End Time: CET 11:30
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Multilingual education policies among young learners in Southeast Asia
Date: 06.05.2025
Time: 10.00 CET
Speaker: Huan Yik Lee
Affiliation: Senior Lecturer, University of Technology Malaysia
Abstract
Despite UNESCO’s calls for mother tongue-based multilingual education (MTB-MLE) approaches in Southeast Asia, regional policymakers have yet to pay much attention to the learning of mother tongues and local languages among children, resulting in the dominance of the national language and English in the curriculum. Grounded in the MTB-MLE, a ‘Na/ver/in’ model, aimed at the combined use of the (na)tional language, (ver)nacular language(s)/regional lingua franca and (in)ternational language is proposed for Southeast Asian primary education.
Bio
Huan Yik Lee (PhD) is a Senior Lecturer at the University of Technology Malaysia. He was a doctoral graduate and an Honorary Fellow at the School of Education, University of Queensland, Australia. His research interests include language policy and planning, TESOL, international and comparative education, teacher education and multilingualism. He is delighted to also be one of ELLRA´s Ambassadors for his research context.
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Contact email for further information / queries: cleslie@fcsh.unl.pt
