Bangladesh : Can Incentives for Community Authors Reduce Shortages in Minority Language Reading Materials?
Bangladesh has one of the world’s largest school systems with more than 21 million students enrolled in pre-primary and primary education. However, only 58 percent of 10-year-olds in Bangladesh are able to read a simple passage with little or no he...
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World Bank, Washington, DC
2020
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| Online Access: | http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/512041591936351541/Bangladesh-Can-Incentives-for-Community-Authors-Reduce-Shortages-in-Minority-Language-Reading-Materials http://hdl.handle.net/10986/33915 |
| Summary: | Bangladesh has one of the world’s
largest school systems with more than 21 million students
enrolled in pre-primary and primary education. However, only
58 percent of 10-year-olds in Bangladesh are able to read a
simple passage with little or no help, a smaller proportion
than other countries including Botswana, Cambodia, or India.
One of the challenges faced is the country’s wide variety of
languages, 41 in total, of which 16 are in common use. In
Bangladesh, indigenous students, those from outside the main
Bengali ethnic group are half as likely to complete primary
school. One of the reasons for that is that they do not
understand the national language, Bangla, which is the
language used in their schools. Evidence from a wide range
of countries suggests that allowing students to learn in
their mother tongue, at least in the early years of
education, improves learning outcomes. |
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