DepEd ‘to abandon mother tongue as subject’ but not as medium of instruction

MANILA, Philippines — Teaching the mother tongue or one’s native language as a separate subject in schools may soon be abandoned, the Department of Education (DepEd) told senators on Monday,

During the Senate basic education committee hearing on the K to 12 law implementation status, DepEd Undersecretary Epimaco Densing III revealed the plan after reviewing the K to 10 program.

He then reiterated that schools would continue to use the mother tongue as a medium of instruction as mandated by the Enhanced Philippine Basic Education Act of 2013 or Republic Act 10533, except when teaching Filipino and English subjects. According to the Philippine Institute of Development Studies, only nine percent of the sample size of 16,287 schools have complied with the four main conditions of DepEd – orthography, grammar, learning resources, and dictionary – in rolling out the MTB-MLE.

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