Bilingual education involves teaching academic content in two languages, in a native and secondary language with varying amounts of each language used in accordance with the program model.Bilingual education refers to the utilization of two languages as means of instruction for students and considered part of or the entire school curriculum.
Education in Malaysia is overseen by the Ministry of Education. Although education is the responsibility of the Federal Government, each state and federal territory has an Education Department to co-ordinate educational matters in its territory. The main legislation governing education is the Education Act 1996.
A medium of instruction is a language used in teaching. It may or may not be the official language of the country or territory. If the first language of students is different from the official language, it may be used as the medium of instruction for part or all of schooling. Bilingual or multilingual education may involve the use of more than one language of instruction. UNESCO considers that "providing education in a child's mother tongue is indeed a critical issue".
Myanmar English is the register of the English language used in Myanmar, spoken as first or second language by an estimated 2.4 million people, about 5% of the population (1997).
Bikramganj is a City and a notified area of Rohtas district, Bihar, India.
An English-medium education system is one that uses English as the primary medium of instruction—particularly where English is not the mother tongue of the students.
National High School is a two-campus school in South Kolkata, in the state of West Bengal, India. While one campus is affiliated to the West Bengal Board of Secondary Education and the West Bengal Council of Higher Secondary Education, the other is affiliated with the Central Board of Secondary Education.
Karuvatta is a village in the Alappuzha District. Karuvatta lies in the intersection. Between Haripad and Thottappally in Alappuzha.
Saraswathi Vidyalaya Senior Secondary School is located in Vadapalani, a suburb of Chennai, in the Indian state of Tamil Nadu. The school was inaugurated in 1956 by the Congress Leader and then former Chief Minister of Tamil Nadu Thiru.K. Kamaraj. The Founder and Principal Mrs. K. Saraswathi received the Presidential award from the President R. Venkataraman. She also received the Silver Elephant award from President Dr. Shankar Dayal Sharma.
The Vidya Kunj School is an English language middle school located in Navsari in Gujarat, a state in western India. It offers GSEB courses in science and commerce streams. School provides education from kindergarten to grade 12. Established in the 1970s, it is the second school in the city which uses English language as medium of teaching/medium of instruction.
Kattoor is a coastal village in Alappuzha district, Kerala, India.
Burdwan C.M.S High School is a school in Burdwan, West Bengal, India, standing by the side of B.C. Road. The school is divided into four categories: KG Section, Primary, Secondary, Higher Secondary, offering school education from KG1 to Higher secondary(+2) to more than 2000 students in the town.
Assam is a state in northeastern India. In 2011, the literacy rate of Assam was estimated to be 73.18% .The literacy rate of Assam is slightly below the national average of 74.04%.
Tamil Nadu is one of the most literate states in India. The state's literacy rate is 80.33% in 2011, which is above the national average. A survey conducted by the Industry body Assocham ranks Tamil Nadu top among Indian states with about 100% Gross Enrollment Ratio (GER) in primary and upper primary education.
The Scottish Church Collegiate School is a selective boys' school in north Kolkata, West Bengal having a history of more than 180 years. The school was founded in 1830 by Reverend Alexander Duff, who came to Calcutta as the first missionary of the Church of Scotland to India. The Scottish Church Collegiate School is affiliated with the West Bengal Board of Secondary Education, and the West Bengal Council of Higher Secondary Education for the secondary and higher secondary school examinations respectively. The school functions under the Governing Body of Diocesan Schools, the Diocesan Board of Education and the Church of North India.
Singapore embraces an English-based bilingual education system. Students are taught subject-matter curriculum with English as the medium of instruction, while the official mother tongue of each student - Mandarin Chinese for Chinese, Malay for Malays and Tamil for ethnically Tamil Indians – is taught as a second language. Additionally, Higher Mother Tongue (HMT) is offered as an additional and optional examinable subject to those with the interest and ability to handle the higher standards demanded by HMT. The content taught to students in HMT is of a higher level of difficulty and is more in-depth so as to help students achieve a higher proficiency in their respective mother tongues. The choice to take up HMT is offered to students in the Primary and Secondary level. Thereafter, in junior colleges, students who took HMT at the secondary level have the choice to opt out of mother tongue classes entirely. Campaigns by the government to encourage the use of official languages instead of home languages have been largely successful, although English seems to be becoming the dominant language in most homes. To date, many campaigns and programmes have been launched to promote the learning and use of mother tongue languages in Singapore.
Mother-tongue education in Hong Kong is the act of teaching in the native language of the pupils in a certain area of country, as opposed to teaching in a foreign language. The subject is especially important in regions where there is a foreign language that is highly prevalent for historical, political or economical reasons.
St. Xavier’s School, Sahibganj, Jharkhand, India, was founded by the Maltese Jesuits in 1957 with English as the medium of instruction. It is coeducational, primary through higher secondary, and prepares students for the Indian Certificate of Secondary Education.
Education in Brunei is provided or regulated by the Government of Brunei through the Ministry of Education and the Ministry of Religious Affairs. The former manages most of the government and private schools in the country where as the latter specifically administers government schools which provide the ugama or Islamic religious education.
