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The Korean government has put a lot of effort into bilingual education for children from multicultural families. For multicultural families, being able to learn more than one language and cultural background is a big advantage. Let’s take a look at what efforts are being made.
Continue to promote the importance of bilingualism
The Ministry of Gender Equality and Family has been operating a project to create a bilingual family environment since 2014.
This project is a project that supports children from multicultural families to develop bilingual skills by naturally learning the language of their mother and father's country from infancy through family centers across the country.
This project is further divided into ‘creating a bilingual environment’ and ‘direct bilingual education’ to inform parents of the importance of bilingual education.
We also conduct various programs such as parent-child interaction coaching, establishing a support system for bilingualism, and bilingual education using textbooks. If you use the family center, you can experience all of these programs.^^
Bilingual education provided directly by the center
Starting in 2023, we will go one step further and provide direct bilingual education to children from multicultural families so that they can develop their diversity and talents. So, previously, parents were encouraged to provide bilingual education at home through the ‘Bilingual Parent Coaching’ program, but from 2023, family centers will directly teach bilingualism to children.
To this end, family centers across the country have been operating ‘bilingual classes’ starting in 2023. Teachers who will teach children in bilingual classrooms are also important, right? The Ministry of Gender Equality and Family conducted additional training for bilingual coaches working at family centers five times, and created a ‘Bilingual Classroom Management Guide’ that can be used in training and distributed it to family centers across the country.
As a result, the number of bilingual coaches (marriage immigrants) running bilingual classes increased to 210. They teach languages such as Chinese and Cambodian to children from multicultural families under the age of 12 in accordance with the needs of their region.
Support for children from diverse multicultural families
The Ministry of Gender Equality and Family increased next year's customized support budget for multicultural children and youth by more than 150% compared to this year. This is to significantly expand bilingual education as well as basic learning support, emotional and career counseling, and mentoring for children from multicultural families.
We also plan to newly establish support for educational activity expenses, provide case management for children from low-income multicultural families, and support the cost of purchasing books or using the reading room.
Children of multicultural families are talented people who have the competitive edge of diversity and can present new ideas to our society, but their enrollment rate in higher education institutions is said to be about 30% lower than that of the entire population. We all need to pay more attention and make efforts to support children from multicultural families.
Source: Ministry of Gender Equality and Family
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