Dayak Bidayuh National Association (DBNA)/UNESCO Multilingual Education Pilot Project.

Dayak Bidayuh National Association (DBNA)/UNESCO Multilingual Education Pilot Project. Dayak Bidayuh National Association (DBNA DBNA Du Bist Nicht Allein (German)DBNA Digitale Bibliografie Nederlandse Archeologie (Dutch))/UNESCO MultilingualEdueatioa Pilot Project. A multilingual education Multilingual Education typically refers to "first-language-first" education, that is, schooling which begins in the mother tongue and transitions to additional languages. Typically MLE programs are situated in developing countries where speakers of minority languages tend to be seminar was organizedby the Bidayuh language development project committee on 30-31 January2006 at the DBNA headquarters in Kuching. This seminar cum workshopdiscussed the importance of multilingual education and the possibilitiesof implementing such a program among the Bidayuh community. Thepresenters were Jim Smith There are several famous people with the name Jim Smith, including: Jim Smith, a football (soccer) player and later manager, currently in charge of Oxford United. Jim Smith, former NFL and USFL wide receiver and Karla Smith, SIL See safety integrity level. 1. SIL - "SIL - A Simulation Language", N. Houbak, LNCS 426, Springer 1990.2. SIL - SNOBOL Implementation Language. Intermediate language forming a virtual machine for the implementation of portable interpreters. Asia area consultants formultilingual projects. The participants expressed their interest in theprogram. Between February and May 2006, Jim Smith contacted andcommunicated with the UNESCO UNESCO:see United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization. UNESCOin full United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization office in Bangkok. Through these contactsJim Smith learned that UNESCO wished to initiate a multilingualeducation pilot project in Malaysia and this information was conveyed toMr. Ik Pahon ak. Joyik, the DBNA President. Upon the advice of the President, the DBNA education subcommitteemet on 16 June 2006 to discuss the offer by UNESCO to start a MLE MLE Maximum Likelihood EstimationMLE Managed Learning EnvironmentMLE Maximum Likelihood EstimateMLE Medical Laboratory Evaluation (Medical Laboratory Proficiency Testing Program, Washington, DC)pilotproject among the Bidayuh. Jim Smith, Guillermo Ruben Vega, MarilinaVega, and Dr. Grace Tan from SIL International "Summer Institute of Linguistics" redirects here. For the Linguistic Society of America's summer Linguistics Institute, see Linguistic Society of America.SIL International were present and gave adetailed explanation of the project, its objectives and activities.After lengthy deliberations, the committee decided in favor of theproject. Jonas Noeb, Robert Sulis, Anna Dreba, Josak ak. Siam and theSIL officers were assigned to draft a proposal paper which was latersent to UNESCO Bangkok on 22 July 2006 for consideration and approval.Josak ak. Siam was officially appointed to be the coordinator for theproject. On June 6, 2006, a faxed Activity-Financing Contract amountingto USD USDIn currencies, this is the abbreviation for the U.S. Dollar.Notes:The currency market, also known as the Foreign Exchange market, is the largest financial market in the world, with a daily average volume of over US $1 trillion. 10,000 was received from Mr. Sheldon Shaeffer, UNESCO Bangkokdirector. A briefing was held by Jim Smith on 7 July 2006 for the DBNAeducation subcommittee and on 30 July a special gathering of Bidayuhpoliticians, leaders and individuals was held at the Holiday Inn Kuchingto officially launch the Bidayuh language book entitled Yesterday, Todayand Tomorrow. It was during this occasion that Jim Smith, on behalf ofUNESCO, announced the DBNA/UNESCO MLE Pilot Project. The contract wassigned and sent back to UNESCO Bangkok on 2 August 2006. Since then, through 2008, a number of activities have beenundertaken: village playschool committees have been created; road showshave been organized and have traveled from district to district toexplain the nature and benefits of mother tongue mother tonguen.1. One's native language.2. A parent language.mother tongueNounthe language first learned by a childNoun 1. education, to planplay- and pre-schools, and to recruit parents to help at schools andother persons, particularly pensioners, to help develop and produceclassroom materials. Ongoing writing, editing, and illustrating workgroups have been established to prepare play- and pre-school curriculum,listening stories, songs, teaching aids, spelling guides, and primersand stories in the five main Bidayuh dialect groups. The materialsprepared so far include MLE playschool booklets (Resources forAdministrators and Resources for Teachers and Administrations),pre-school primers, and a Bau picture dictionary (Buk Bang SindaBigambar). For further information, contact Jonas Noeb, PersatuanKebangsaan Dayak Bidayuh, Dayak Bidayuh National Association, Lot 964,Block 10, Jalan Kumpang, off Jalan Ong Tiang Swee, P.O. Box 614, 93712Kuching, Sarawak, Malaysia. In June 2008 reconstruction work on a Chinese temple in Bintulu wasnearing completion. The temple, built fifty years ago, was sufferingfrom a leaking roof. The committee decided to demolish the originalbuilding. A fund of three million ringgit ring��git?n.See Table at currency.[Malay.]Noun 1. ringgit - the basic unit of money in Malaysia; equal to 100 sen to reconstruct the temple wasraised from businessmen and other donors (Borneo Bulletin online,Saturday 19 July 2008).