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The Department of Education has proposed early teaching of English and the removal of the separate Mother Tongue subject in the primary level.

The suspension is meant to help DepEd and school districts develop enough materials to fully implement the use of the mother tongue

With 240 affirmative votes, the House of Representatives has approved on third and final reading the bill seeking to suspend the implementation of mother tongue or first language as the medium of instruction for pupils in kindergarten to Grade 3. (Erika Fletcher/ Unsplash) Passed d

(PNA photo by Gil Calinga) MANILA - A language spoken in a particular region is the least preferred medium of instruction for Grades 1 to 3, the results of a Pulse Asia survey showed. The survey, conducted from Sept. 17 to 21 last year, asked 1,200 respondents what language should be used as the primary mode of instruction for Grades 1 to 3 students. Only 38 percent picked the dialect in their region, while Filipino was the most preferred (88 percent), followed by English (71 percent). Senator Sherwin Gatchalian, chairman of the Committee on Basic Education and who commissioned the survey, sai...

A dialect or language spoken in a particular region is the least preferred medium of instruction for Grades 1 to 3, according to the results of a Pulse Asia survey commissioned by Sen. Sherwin Gatchalian.