As part of a new measure aimed at improving the Vietnamese speaking abilities of students entering the first grade in ethnic minority inhabited areas, students will now study Vietnamese for 50 to 70 weeks. On August 5th, the Ministry of Education and Training held a conference on Teaching the Vietnamese Language to Disadvantaged Ethnic Minority First-Graders, where the new measure and several other strategies were discussed. There are 53 ethnic minority groups in Vietnam. According to statistics of the Ministry of Education and Training, 70% of ethnic minority pupils do not know how to speak Vietnamese, or can not speak Vietnamese clearly. This greatly affects their ability to study. Therefore, it is necessary to improve the ability to speak Vietnamese for ethnic minority pupils, especially disadvantaged ones, as well as improving overall teaching quality in ethnic monitory inhabited areas. Most participants in the conference agreed that, to ensure ethnic minority pupils study and acquire Vietnamese curriculum right from the First Grade, they need to accustom themselves to Vietnamese at preschools by learning from bilingual books. Primary schools should increase the amount of teaching in Vietnamese for ethnic minority pupils at the first grade from the current 35 weeks to either…
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