Blog na Gaeilge » education http://www.irishgaelictranslator.com/blog News of the Irish language. Tue, 06 Jul 2010 19:16:20 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 Gaelscoileanna: must teach 30 minutes of English per day http://www.irishgaelictranslator.com/blog/content/12 http://www.irishgaelictranslator.com/blog/content/12#comments Thu, 26 Jul 2007 15:42:21 +0000 Eoin http://www.irishgaelictranslator.com/blog/content/12 Until now, at least some Gaelscoileanna (primay schools that teach through the medium of Irish) have adopted a “total immersion” approach. Students are not taught any English for the first two years of school.

They argue that this lies in with international best practice for teaching a language.

Mary Hanafin, the Minister for Education, has now said that all children must be taught 30 minutes of English a day from the second half of their first year of school onwards.

Source: RTÉ

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