Co-hosted by the YU Multicultural Education & Research Institute and the Daegu Office of Education
Development of potential and raising pride by improving the bilingual abilities of multicultural students
Joined by 24 local multicultural elementary and secondary school students... Top 3 to participate in nation-wide contest
[September 17, 2020]
<Winners of the 8th Bilingual Speech Contest>
The YU Multicultural Education & Research Institute and Daegu Office of Education co-hosted the ‘Bilingual Speech Contest’.
The ‘Bilingual Speech Contest’ is in its eighth year this year with the goal of encouraging being bilingual (Korean and native language of parents) of multi-cultural students to develop linguistic strengths uniquely available to multi-cultural students, while also establishing their identity and raising their pride.
This contest, which was held at the YU International Exchange Center on the 12th, was joined by 24 local multi-cultural elementary and secondary school students who passed the manuscript and video preliminaries and they showed off their bilingual skills in Korean and the native tongue of their parents.
For elementary school students, a three-minute presentation in Korean and then in their parents’ native tongue under free topic was held, and for secondary school students, they presented their future career plans in two languages for two minutes each, and then held a Q&A and session.
Jeon Eun-jin who is in the sixth grade at Daegu Seonwon Elementary School won the grand prize and runners-up were Gashim (Daegu Shindang Elementary School, sixth grade) and Shin Sakdiana (Daegu Nongong Elementary School, sixth grade). The three winners are scheduled to represent Daegu at the national contest that will be held in December.
