Mother Tongue-Based Multilingual Education in the Asia-Pacific Region

Suwilai Premsrirat was Emeritus Professor of Linguistics and the Founding Director of the Resource Center for Documentation, Revitalization and Maintenance of Endangered Languages and Cultures, Research Institute for Languages and Cultures of Asia (RILCA) at Mahidol University, Thailand. Her work was dedicated to the study of minority languages, language revitalization and language education.

David Hirsh is Associate Professor at the University of Sydney, Australia. His areas of focus include language revitalization, bilingual education and academic acculturation. Related publications include Endangered Languages, Knowledge Systems and Belief Systems (Peter Lang, 2013) and Language Revitalization: Insights from Thailand (co-edited with Suwilai Premsrirat, Peter Lang, 2018).