新住民
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- 新住民
- new immigrants
- Ministry of the Interior
- 內政部
- Southeast Asia
- 東南亞
- Ministry of Education
- 吳思華
- 教育部
- 母語
Taiwan Government Launches Website and LINE Account for New Immigrants
The number of new immigrants has been increasing in Taiwan. How is the government attending to their needs?
Languages of Immigrants in Taiwan Will Become Elementary School Compulsory Courses in 2018
Merit Times reports, according to the latest statistics from the Ministry of Education, there are 211 thousand children of new immigrants among a total of 2.055 million elementary school and junior high school students, which accounts for 10.28% of the population. This also means one out of ten students is a new immigrant child.
Languages of Immigrants in Taiwan Will Become Compulsory Classes in Elementary Schools
To help retain the language abilities of the second generation of immigrants, Wu says that the curriculum guideline of 2018 stipulates that elementary school students have to attend related courses, including Taiwanese, Hakka, aboriginal language, as well as languages of immigrants. Junior high school students can select whichever mother tongue they want to learn, and the school has to offer the course as long as a student enrolls.