Language
Praht Thai is a trilingual school that has its base firmly in the native Thai language. Praht Thai teaches two other languages being English and Chinese. The English and Chinese language lessons provide complete Language Learning is delivered in a model designed to ‘teach’ the language as well as enhance the subject matter learning encountered in the Thai delivered curriculum spectrum. This differs from the immersion models of schools where subjects are taught in English and students therefore are targeted to assume the ability of the English language i the process.
Attainment of academic and liguistic trilingualism is a strong focus of Praht Thai School system. The IC Curriculum takes the position that because of the great language distance between Thai and English, learning core subjects at a high level should be done in the mother tongue. IC highlights the importance of a strong language-learning focus in any non-Thai delivered components of the education process.
The Language system used in Praht Thai follows the British genre of English curricula with input from the developments of language instruction dating as far back as the 1970s combined with modern linguistic learning technologies. Much of the course design also reflects European language training methodologies which have been used successfully throughout Europe for decades.
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