Mother tongue teachers have found a new revenue stream; children and adults seeking to learn vernacular languages. From holiday language boot camps to paid storytelling sessions and weekend online ...

Children of different ethnic minorities in the hill communities received the rights to learn the mother tongue eight years ago, but made no headway due to the lack of proper government initiatives and ...

At the start of each year, pre-school teacher Nazreen Banu Surali Habeeb Mohamed is faced with the challenge of getting new pre-school pupils to reply to her in their mother tongue, Tamil. Most ...

SINGAPORE – A small-scale pilot will be launched at two new pre-schools by the Ministry of Education (MOE) to study the impact on young children when they have more exposure to mother tongue language ...