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Mother Tongue as a subject is primarily taught in kindergarten and grades 1, 2 and 3. The adoption of regional languages as a medium of teaching is based on studies that indicate that the use of mother tongues as languages of instruction improves the comprehension and critical thinking skills of children and facilitates the learning of second ...
Among the proposals include (1) "establishing a dictionary & sentence construction manual" for each of the 135 living languages in the country, (2) "video documentation" of all Philippine languages, (3) "revival of the ancient scripts of the Philippines" where each ethnic group's own script shall be revived and used in schools along with the ...
Chavacano or Chabacano (Spanish pronunciation: [tʃaβaˈkano]) is a group of Spanish-based creole language varieties spoken in the Philippines.The variety spoken in Zamboanga City, located in the southern Philippine island group of Mindanao, has the highest concentration of speakers.
Grade 2: 7-8 and up Grade 3: 8-9 and up Grade 4: 9-10 and up Grade 5: 10-11 and up Grade 6: 11-12 and up Grade 7: 12-13 and up High school: 1st year 13-14 and up 2nd year 14-15 and up 3rd year 15-16 and up 4th year 16-17 and up Higher education; College: Varies 17 and up
Ilocano is used in public schools mostly in the Ilocos Region and the Cordilleras. It is the primary medium of instruction from Kindergarten to Grade 3 (except for the Filipino and English subjects) and is also a separate subject from Grade 1 to Grade 3. Thereafter, English and Filipino are introduced as mediums of instruction.
[93] [94] [69] The Tagalog language was chosen as an official language of the Philippines in 1935. Today, Filipino , a de facto version of Tagalog, is taught throughout the archipelago. [ 95 ] As of the 2019 census [update] , there were about 22.5 million speakers of Tagalog in the Philippines, 23.8 million worldwide. [ 96 ]
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Language Family Branch First-language (L1) speakers Second-language (L2) speakers Total speakers (L1+L2) English (excl. creole languages) Indo-European: Germanic: 380 million 1.135 billion 1.515 billion Mandarin Chinese (incl. Standard Chinese, but excl. other varieties) Sino-Tibetan: Sinitic: 941 million 199 million 1.140 billion Hindi (excl ...