Sarasas Ektra School (Thai: โรงเรียนสารสาสน์เอกตรา) is a Catholic
bilingual
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co-educational school in central
Bangkok
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. As of 2009, the school had approximately 2,900 students and conducted a fully bilingual program in
Thai
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and English from kindergarten 1 (3-year-olds) to matayom 6 (17-year-olds). The school occupies three campuses in the Bang Phongphang Sub-district of
Yan Nawa District. A nursery class for two-year-old children was introduced in May 2009.
Sarasas Ektra is one of 24 Sarasas-affiliated schools, 15 of which have
bilingual
Multilingualism is the use of more than one language, either by an individual speaker or by a group of speakers. It is believed that multilingual speakers outnumber monolingual speakers in the world's population. More than half of all E ...
programs.
Further reading
* ''Developing Literacy in Second Language Learners'', Report of the National Literacy Panel or Language Minorities and Youth, Center for Applied Linguistics, Washington DC, 2006, p. 397
* Swain, M. and Lapkin, S. ''Evaluating Bilingual Education'', 1982, cited in Lin, A.M.Y. and Man, E.Y.F., ''Bilingual Education: Southeast Asian Perspectives'', University of Hong Kong Press, 2009, p. 20
External links
Sarasas Ektra School Website*Topic: Sarasas Schools- All campuses
* http://www.freelancetefl.com/forum/index.php/topic,258.60.html
* http://www.freelancetefl.com/forum/index.php/topic,258.15.html
{{International schools in Thailand, state=collapsed
Bilingual schools
Schools in Bangkok
Educational institutions established in 1995
1995 establishments in Thailand
Yan Nawa district