Gansu
Gansu Tibetan primary students receive bilingual courses
Updated: 2015-03-10By Li Xiaoxu ( chinadaily.com.cn )
Labrang Tibetan Primary School in northwest China's Gansu province has decided to promote bilingual teaching by providing both Tibetan and Chinese courses for students.
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Yue Caiyun, a teacher at Labrang Tibetan Primary School teaches students Chinese, on March 5. [Photo/ Xinhua.com.cn] |
The school is located in Xiahe county in the Gannan Tibet autonomous prefecture of Gansu province and has more than 1,000 Tibetan students. To enable students to learn Chinese at a young age, the school has opened Chinese courses in recent years, with the teachers encouraging students to learn Chinese and trying to make Chinese courses popular among students.
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Labrang Tibetan Primary School students read Chinese in class. [Photo/ Xinhua.com.cn] |
Edited by Jacob Hooson