Asia Multilingual Education Working Group (MLE WG) By Kyungah Kristy Bang To introduce working group and activities what to do

MLE Networks in the World Bangkok based Asia Multilingual Education Working Group (MLE WG) Washington DC based MTB-MLE Network London based MLE Working Group Nairobi-based MLE Network of Kenya Kampala based the Uganda MLE Network Addis Ababa based MLE Network of Ethiopia Manila based MTB MLE Philippines New Delhi based MLE Network in India National Multilingual Education Resource Consortium Before I go to explanation, There is, which is us. They focus on the global issues I think MLE regional use for discusiion

Asia Multilingual Education Working Group (MLE WG) Began meeting in 2003 Established in October 2009 under the umbrella of the Regional Thematic Working Group on EFA (TWG-EFA) Purpose: Identifying the major needs in nurturing a multilingual education movement and coordinating human and financial resources to help meet those needs. Goal: Remove barriers of access to quality education for ethnolinguistic communities through support to multilingual education and related policy advocacy. We began as a pre-working group in 2003

Founding members: AsiaMLE WG Founding members are like this: Kimmo, mention AIT, FAL, too

Major Activities of Asia MLE WG MLE Conferences MLE Mapping Exercise MLE Assessment Framework MLE Publications MLE e-Newsletters There are five major activities like this:

MLE Conferences International MLE Conference 1st conference on Language Development, Language Revitalization and Multilingual Education in Minority Communities in Asia, 2003 (http://www.sil.org/asia/ldc/) 2nd international conference on language development, language revitalization and multilingual education in ethnolinguistic communities, 2008 (http://www.seameo.org/_ld2008/) 3rd international conference on language, education and Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), 2010 (http://www.seameo.org/LanguageMDGConference2010/) 4th international conference on language and education: Multilingual Education for All – Polices, Practices, Processes, 2013 (http://www.lc.mahidol.ac.th/mleconf2013/about.htm) As I said, MLE Conference one of driving forces to be inclusive. First – focuse: high demand of language issue Second – look beyond this,

International Conference on Language, Education and MDGs, 2010 November 9-11, 2010 Bangkok Over 400 participants from 30 different countries Highlight the linkage between language and achieving the MDGs & EFA 4 Themes: Language and Universal Primary Education Language and Gender Equality Language, Health, Nutrition and Protection Language and Sustainable Development Some participants Interesting conference: sustainable development dealt with

International Conference on Language and Education: Multilingual Education for All in Asia and the Pacific 2013 November 6-8, 2013 Bangkok Highlight MLE policies, practices and processes in Asia and the Pacific region 4 Themes: MLE Theories MLE Policies MLE Practices Impact of MLE Strong momentum; covering for readings

Regional MLE Mapping Exercise To analyze the current situation on classroom language use in the Asia-Pacific region To document key actors and activities shaping the regional context in terms of language of instruction and multilingual education, particularly in ethnolinguistic minority communities

Mapping Questionnaire Questionaires; How many people; what kind of procedures are available

Regional MLE Mapping Exercise Mapping questionnaires were sent out for the first time in early 2010 AP region excluding Central Asia Received 40+ responses from 20 countries

Regional MLE Mapping Exercise List of countries Lao PDR Afghanistan Malaysia Bangladesh Nepal Bhutan Pakistan Brunei Darussalam Cambodia Philippines Solomon Islands China Thailand Fiji Timor-Leste India Vanuatu Indonesia Kiribati Vietnam

MLE Mapping Data (http://www. unescobkk Available under the website for mapping data

MLE Assessment Framework Determine common metrics to monitor, evaluate and report on the impact of multilingual education (MLE) programs on improving educational attainment of ethnolinguistic communities. The development of this framework should be coordinated and incorporated with existing reporting processes tracking progress on EFA/MDGs. It should also provide a vehicle for comparative assessment of various models and approaches to MLE in order to fuel innovation, accountability and good practice across agencies and contexts. Next one is that Unfortunately, we haven’t done with that work so far.

MLE Publications Actvitiy: annual publication Long wordy – decide cathching easy and simpler version: identify need through conference Brochures in your yellow bag

MLE Advocacy Toolkits and DVD in regional languages It has not been translated but – Hopefully, we can have more translation version for that in the near future

MLE e-Newsletters Quarterly e-newsletter for MLE WG members First Issue in March 2011 Initial # of subscribers: 150 individuals Current # of subscribers: 508 individuals Latest issue: Issue 11 – 1 October 2013 http://www.unescobkk.org/education/m ultilingual-education/resources/mle-e- newsletter/ Every three months sent out this I think a lot of people would like to get inform by this letters so far we have 11 issues the latest issue is held in the last month.

Future Roles of MLE WG Asia - Pacific MLE WG Foster enhanced knowledge of multilingual education Promote positive policies and practices on multilingual education Strengthen networks and partnerships http://www.asiapacificmle. net I think this is the main theme we today discuss Increase the coverage AP MLE Reveal the capacity what is appropriate As well as national levels Information – we want to gather every information on this website; recording, library pictures for network; upload teaching and learning materials to share in different language Vision What to do and how to do; we have to think about that!

Thank you! k.bang@unesco.org © Sirisak-Chaiyasook Thank you! k.bang@unesco.org http://www.unescobkk.org/education/multilingual-education