Gloria Esguerra Melencio, Arab News MANILA, 9 March 2008 — A landmark bill was filed yesterday in the House of Representatives which, if passed into law, will require the use of the mother tongue as medium of instruction in the elementary grades. House Bill 3719 entitled "An Act Establishing a Multi-Lingual Education and Literacy Program" also provides for the teaching of the first language, Filipino and English as separate subjects. What this means is that the Ilocano language, for instance, will be used as medium of...
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