Taipei Times
Date: Jun 20, 2018
By: Ann Maxon  /  Staff reporter

To promote the native languages of new immigrants, elementary-school students will have to choose one of seven Southeast Asian languages to study, starting in the fall of next year, the Ministry of Education said yesterday.

The languages are Vietnamese, Indonesian, Thai, Burmese, Cambodian, Bahasa Malaysia and Filipino, and students would be required to take one class per week, the ministry said.

The K-12 Education Administration is creating four textbooks for each of the three language levels elementary school students are expected to study, it said.

The language classes would also be offered as elective subjects for junior-high students, with six books for the fourth level, the ministry said.    [FULL  STORY]